Brokedown Palace

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Brokedown Palace (1999)

PG-13 08/13/1999 (US) Drama, Thriller, Mystery 1h 40m

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Their graduation present was a trip to paradise, but they never thought they would land in hell.

Overview

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.

Jonathan Kaplan

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David Arata

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Top Billed Cast

Claire Danes

Alice Marano
Kate Beckinsale

Darlene Davis
Bill Pullman

Hank Greene
Jacqueline Kim

Yon Greene
Lou Diamond Phillips

Roy Knox
Daniel Lapaine

Nick Parks
Tom Amandes

Doug Davis
Aimee Graham

Beth Ann Gardener
John Doe

Bill Marano
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A review by John Chard

60%

Written by John Chard on July 18, 2014

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 n... read the rest.

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