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1999 Certificate 12
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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 .. Read more

Starring Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Pullman, Lou Diamond Phillips
Director Jonathan Kaplan
Genres Drama

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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.

Starring Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Pullman, Lou Diamond Phillips, Daniel Lapaine, Jacqueline Kim
Director Jonathan Kaplan
Studio 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 37 mins
Certificate Certificate 12
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Hearing-impaired English
Subtitles DVD: Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish
Released DVD: 30 Jun 2003
Production year: 1999
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews (6) of Brokedown Palace

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  • 2 stars out of 5

    If it weren't for sterling performances from Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale, this would be yet another turgid rehash of the plot in which nice American kids get burnt by drug laws in Thailand. After high school, the two friends travel to Asia for a holiday but unwittingly become involved in a drugs scam and are arrested for heroin possession. Slammed in a Tenko-style women's prison (whose most bizarre inmate is a cockney-accented Amanda De Cadenet), the two young women pin their hopes on renegade lawyer Bill Pullman. The film, subsequently cold-shouldered by both stars, is entirely formulaic, predictable and dull. Given the all-too-evident abilities of Danes and Beckinsale, the true crime here is a flagrant waste of talent.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • "...What's new and worth watching....is the well-delineated, very female, evolving connection between [Danes and Beckinsale]..."

    • Entertainment Weekly
    • Posted 11 Mar 2005

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  • 9 out of 9 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Good story - good acting - good movie

    Two young American women make a life changing trip to Thailand - this is all I will say about a good story that you should discover yourself...

    In many respects this looks like a rather small film but like any really good piece of film making it's the story telling that makes up for any big budget. This one will hold you right from the start whre the seemingly idyllic life always feels threatened and 'too good to be true'. Add to this excellent acting and a tight direction that keeps you guessing about where the story is going and you have a guaranteed good evening in.

    One of the other reviewers appears to have watched this for the 'pretty girls' and I would just like to make it clear that this is not a sleazy film and that the two main actresses are playing excellent character roles.

    This is a good choice allraound - enough 'action' for the boys, enough 'girl power' for the girls and a good and intelligent storyline for everyone. What are you waiting for?

    • ThomasKus
      • ThomasKus from Gloucester
      • Posted 24 Nov 2004 unknown

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    very good

    very good very enjoyable

      • A customer from uk
      • Posted 12 Jun 2006 10:29

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