Trivia

During an interview, Milla Jovovich recalled filming the scene where she had to wake her 19-year-old co-star Brian Krause's character and get him out of bed after he experiences his first sexual dream. She said that to surprise her, they put a piece of wood in his pants to simulate an erection. She saw this and started cracking up so hard she forgot her line.

Unlike Brooke Shields, who insisted on using a body double for her nude scenes in The Blue Lagoon (1980), Milla Jovovich decided to bare all for the camera. During an interview in 1991 to promote the movie, she said: "It was my choice because (the nude scenes) were not so incredibly explicit that I needed to worry. I had a robe on until they yelled action and I'd put it right back on when they yelled cut.".

Milla Jovovich said that this is the worst movie she has ever done.

While based on the novel sequel "The Garden of God" (1923), the only thing the movie shares with that book is the very opening where Richard and Emmeline Lestrange are dead, and the baby is rescued by the crew. In fact, in the novel, Arthur Lestrange himself decides to remain on the island with Baby Paddy (called Dick M) and dies while taking a walk, his body never being found.

The first part of the movie focuses on the struggles facing Sarah, a widow played by Lisa Pelikan, as she adapts to the sometimes harsh realities of life on a tropical island with two infants in tow, daughter Lilli and Richard, whose parents died at sea. Over the next eight years, Sarah educates the children in the hopes of one day returning to the civility of her former life in San Francisco.