1.  The Beach – Leonardo DiCaprio on a secret beach with sharks, drugs, and Moby

2.  Cast Away – Tom Hanks does his best to stay sane while stranded alone on a tropical island.

3.  Love Wrecked – Amanda Bynes tricks her celebrity crush into thinking they are shipwrecked on a deserted island.  The kind of terrible we love to love

3.  My Father the Hero – A compulsive liar with a new crush drags her father into playing along with her dramatic tall tales. This funny, bizarre, and often cringeworthy story is full of heart. Set at a resort in The Bahamas

4.  Weekend at Bernie’s – Two guys, who are unwittingly involved in a fraud coverup, escape the city to vacation with their boss in the Hamptons.  They don’t let their boss’s surprising demise stop the party.

5.  Muppet Treasure Island – The best movie version of the classic novel. Trust me.  True to the book with the addition of an underlying Kermit/Piggy love story and hit songs like “Cabin Fever.”

6.  Pirates of the Caribbean – Pirates, treasure, love, and a ghost ship.

7.  Blue Lagoon – Two young cousins are marooned on an island and must navigate puberty and survival with very little guidance.  The plot is awkward but interesting, and the film really makes you feel like you just caught a fish with a handmade spear.

8.  Forgetting Sarah Marshall – A man goes to a Hawaiian resort to get over his ex only to find out she is staying in the next room over.  This hilarious romantic comedy is filled with actors who are known to make us laugh.

9.  Mamma Mia – A young bride-to-be invites three men, each of whom might be her father, to her wedding on a sunny Greek island.  The players sing and dance their way through this romantic comedy set to the music of ABBA.

10.  Fool’s Gold – Will the search for treasure rekindle this divorcing couple’s love? Everything in this movie is beautiful- the people, the boats, the scenery.  It’s a great escape.

11.  Just Go With It– Adam Sandler tells a pretty young woman a complicated lie in order to maintain her affection. The lie evolves each time his story is questioned, and he ends up recruiting his co-worker and her children to act as his fake family on a Hawaiian vacation.

12.  Blue Crush – Kate Bosworth plays a dedicated surfer training for a competition. She meets a man and struggles as her attention is pulled away from her friends and her goals. This is a surf story about finding balance.