<P> The film was released on March 16, 1990 by Columbia Pictures, with film rights now belonging to Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer . Upon and since its release, the film has received mixed reviews, generally more negative than its 1963 counterpart . Most critics praise the film's scenery but center upon the film's deviations from the novel as a central flaw . However, the movie grossed $14 million and has acquired a cult following . </P> <P> An aircraft carrying 24 young American military school cadets returning home crash lands into the sea near a remote, uninhabited, jungle island in the Pacific Ocean . The pilot of the plane Captain Benson (Michael Greene), the only adult survivor, is seriously injured and delirious . All of the survivors arrive on the island . During the night, Simon, the most independent cadet, finds a river and notifies the other boys, to which they all drink out of it and explore the island afterwards . Meanwhile, on the beach, an overweight cadet with nicknamed "Piggy" (whose real name is never revealed during the story), a boy with glasses, finds a seashell and takes it to the grouped cadets, who adopt it to signal the right to speak and be heard by the group . The shell in the movie is not a classic conch (as stated by the characters) of the Strombidae family, but is instead a member of the Charonia genus . The senior cadet, and one of the elder boys, Cadet Colonel Ralph, organizes a meeting to discuss surviving their predicament . Ralph and another of the older boys, Jack, emerge dominant, and an impromptu election is held to determine an official leader for the group . Ralph is declared the winner . They start a fire using Piggy's glasses to try and alert any passing craft . Things go smoothly for a while, but tensions soon begin to grow between Ralph and Jack . </P> <P> One night, as they sleep, the delusional Captain Benson wanders away from the boys and into the jungle, eventually making his way to a cave deep inland . Jack brings all of his hunters to hunt in the jungle, leaving no one watching the fire . The fire goes out, preventing a passing helicopter from noticing them . Ralph blames Jack for failing to keep it going . During the ensuing fight, Jack, tired of listening to Ralph and Piggy, leaves and forms his own camp, taking many of the boys with him . As more and more boys defect to Jack's side, one of the younger boys, Larry, finds Captain Benson in the cave, mistakes him for a monster and stabs him, and then tells the other boys . Jack and his second - in - command Roger (Gary Rule) then go to the cave's entrance and mistakes Captain Benson's dying groans for the sounds of a monster . </P> <P> One night, Jack and his savages steal a knife from Ralph so they can make more spears, but accidentally trample on Piggy's glasses in the process, breaking one lens . Expecting to be rescued, Ralph's civilized leadership establishes a permanent signal - fire to alert passing ships of their presence on the island . Not expecting or wanting to be rescued, Jack's savage leadership adapts to circumstance; he establishes his camp as spear - bearing hunters who provide meat for both camps . They kill a Wild pig and leave its head as an offering to the "monster" that they believe is in the cave . Eventually, identical twins Sam and Eric (Andrew Taft and Edward Taft), two of Ralph's friends, leave him to join Jack's tribe, leaving Ralph with only Piggy and Simon left . </P>

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