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Brokedown Palace

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Brokedown Palace (1998)

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Reviews Counted:33

Fresh:9

Rotten:24

Average Rating:4.7/10

Consensus: Lacks credibility and tension.

Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Alice and Darlene are best friends who decide to celebrate their high school graduation with a trip to Thailand. There, they meet handsome Australian Nick Parks, who convinces them to travel to... Alice and Darlene are best friends who decide to celebrate their high school graduation with a trip to Thailand. There, they meet handsome Australian Nick Parks, who convinces them to travel to Hong Kong, but is actually using them to smuggle drugs. The two girls are sentenced to decades in prison, and must contact a greedy American lawyer to try and regain their freedom. [More]

Starring: Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Pullman, Daniel Lapaine

Starring: Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Pullman, Daniel Lapaine, Lou Diamond Phillips, Jacqueline Kim

Director: Jonathan Kaplan

Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Screenwriter: Adam Fields, David Arata
Composer: David Newman
Producer: A. Kitman Ho, Adam Fields

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about as thrilling as a long line at customs. The screenplay (is)apparently based on those recorded warnings played in airports... Danes and Beckinsale struggle to bring some conviction to a story sorely in need of it.

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