ID help: pirates, and cheese = "heaven" ?

Cafe Society
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Vague description, but maybe one of you will know what the hell I’m after. It was a movie, or maybe a made-for-TV miniseries, and I really want to say that Elijah Wood was in it, playing the character of someone stranded alone on an island.

The other main character - who wore a lot of eyeliner but definitely was not Jonny Depp - looks like Eddie Izzard in my recollection.

The only key detail I remember is that the stranded young man had tasted cheese once in his life before, and equated it in a very literal sense with heaven.

Cheese. Heaven. Pirates. Have I lost my marbles or was this something I actually watched.

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Meant to clarify that the possibly-Eddie-Izzard character was a pirate. I think he either rescued the other guy, or deliberately stranded him in the 1st place.

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“Many’s the long night I’ve dreamt of cheese…toasted, mainly.” — Ben Gunn, the marooned pirate in Treasure Island

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Treasure Island starring Eddie Izzard and Elijah Wood, perhaps?

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And Elijah Wood plays Ben Gunn in that, with Izzard as Long John Silver. BOOM.

21 minutes. Not too shabby.

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I so hope he comes back and says “No, that’s not it”

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It was Citizen Kane

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It’s Lupus

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It’s never Lupus.

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“Rio”, by Duran Duran.

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My vote goes to Treasure Island. I remember Mr Gunn and his cheese from the parody of it in an old Dennis the Menace comic: “Mmmmmph! No mustard!” :mad: