Their graduation present was a trip to paradise, but they never thought they would land in hell.
Best friends Alice and Darlene take a trip to Thailand after graduating high school. In Thailand, they meet a captivating Australian man, who calls himself Nick Parks. Darlene is particularly smitten with Nick and convinces Alice to take Nick up on his offer to treat the two of them to what amounts to a day trip to Hong Kong. In the airport, the girls are seized by the police and shocked to discover that one of their bags contains heroin.
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Classical in form, contemporary, grave and earnest.
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- John Chardon TMDB · Jul 20146/10
That's all freedom is... an illusion. Two carefree teenage girls are jailed in Thailand for allegedly smuggling Heroin while on vacation. It has become the stuff of reality nightmares, seemingly every year there is the reports of foreigners abroad caught smuggling drugs. Quite often the innocence is starkly protested, claims of being duped or threatened into being drug mules through customs borders. Brokedown Palace is an interpretation of one such instance. There's a viable complaint about the film that it condenses the harsh realities of the surroundings, this "Brokedown Palace" is not portrayed as the dirty hell holes they so often are in reality. This initially gives the film a sort of false feel, that we are being fed a watered down Hollywood production of something very serious. However, looking deeper into the picture as a character piece, Jonathan Kaplan's film beats a mighty heart and has brain staying power as well. Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale (both superb) are the two friends at the centre of this mystery. Story is more concerned with how their friendship copes under the trying circumstances. Through the initial shock of their situation, to the faux trial, the inter
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Cast
- Claire DanesAlice Marano
- Kate BeckinsaleDarlene Davis
- Bill PullmanHank Greene
- Jacqueline KimYon Greene
- Lou Diamond PhillipsRoy Knox
- Daniel LapaineNick Parks
- Tom AmandesDoug Davis
- Aimee GrahamBeth Ann Gardener
- John DoeBill Marano
- Lim Kay TongChief Detective Jagkrit
Crew
- Jonathan KaplanDirector
- David ArataScreenplay
- Newton Thomas SigelDirector of Photography
- David NewmanOriginal Music Composer
- Curtiss ClaytonEditor
- Don ZimmermanEditor
- Adam FieldsProducer
- Lope V. Juban Jr.Producer
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