| release date: | August 13, 1999 |
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| genre: | Drama |
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| director: | Jonathan Kaplan |
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| studio: | 20th Century Fox |
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| producer(s): | Adam Fields |
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| screenplay: | Adam Fields, David Arata |
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| cast: | Kate Beckinsale, Lou Diamond Phillips, Claire Danes, Bill Pullman, Daniel Lapaine, Jacqueline Kim, Paul Walker IV, Chad Todhunter, Maya Elise Goodwin |
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Brokedown Palace Movie Synopsis
A cautionary tale about accepting gifts from strangers, this film finds two best friends in a Midnight Express, Return to Paradise dilemma. Following their high school graduation, Alice and Darlene head to exotic Thailand for some fun in the sun. Once there they meet a hunky Australian who persuades them to come along to Hong Kong at his expense. Of course, they’re being set up as drug mules and get caught with a suitcase full of heroin at the Bangkok airport. (The Aussie actually tips off the customs people to use the girls' arrest as a diversionary tactic to get his other mules through.)
Unsuccessfully defended by a Thai lawyer and all but abandoned by their own government, the girls rot in a Thai prison, their only hope for salvation an American expatriate lawyer that they're none-too enamored with.
Danes gives one of the best female interpretation of every time.
Loved it! Went to see it because my favorite actor, Bill Pullman was in it..but loved the story all together..it made me cry. Very good movie.