Most people link “paradise” with clear skies, calm seas, and holiday drinks. In Ron Howard’s Eden, that vision turns dark, marked by betrayal, blood, and even steel dentures worn by Jude Law’s character. The survival thriller, reaching U.S. cinemas this August, is rooted in a real incident from 1929 that plays out stranger than fiction. Starring Vanessa Kirby, Ana de Armas, Sydney Sweeney, Jude Law, and Daniel Brühl, the film follows a community on the Galápagos Islands whose dream of escape collapses into one of the century’s most puzzling mysteries. Below is every scoop you should know before the flick lands in theatres.
At the heart of Eden lies a utopia that never really stood a chance. The year is 1929. Dr. Friedrich Ritter, a German physician played by Jude Law, decides society has lost its soul and drags his partner Dora Strauch Ritter, portrayed by Vanessa Kirby, to the Galápagos island of Floreana. His dream is to write a philosophical manifesto, free from what he saw as Europe’s corruption. She hopes to maybe cure her multiple sclerosis with meditation and peace. On paper, that sounds almost romantic. In practice, it becomes anything but.


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