The Beach marked a huge inflection point in DiCaprio’s career and his decision to do the movie over a few other options set in motion everything that has followed. Let me explain.

The Beach had the highest budget of any film in Boyle’s career when it went into production, and he admitted to feeling overwhelmed by the scale of the project and called it “terrifying ...

It’s been a quarter century since director Danny Boyle and Leonardo DiCaprio teamed up for The Beach, and while the movie was a hit at the time, it was divisive with critics then, as it still is ...