Brokedown Palace
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.
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.
| Director: | Jonathan Kaplan |
| Studio: | 20th Century Fox |
| Producer(s): | Adam Fields |
| Cast: | Kate Beckinsale, Lou Diamond Phillips, Claire Danes, Bill Pullman, Daniel Lapaine, Jacqueline Kim, Paul Walker IV, Chad Todhunter, Maya Elise Goodwin |
| Writer(s): | Adam Fields, David Arata |
| Official Site: | www.foxmovies.com/brokedownpalace/ |
