Bare Essentials

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Bare Essentials ★ 1991 (PG)

Made for TV yuppie Club Med nightmare in which a highstrung couple from New York find themselves marooned on a desert isle with only two other inhabitants. With no cellular telephoning ability and an absence of largeticket consumer goods to purchase, the two turn their reluctant sights on each other, focusing on the bare essentials, as it were. Great soulsearching scenes for the inarticulate. 94m/C VHS . Gregory Harrison, Lisa Hartman Black, Mark LinnBaker, Charlotte Lewis; D: Martha Coolidge. TV