Brokedown Palace

1999 100 min ★ 6.4 Drama, Thriller, Mystery

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.

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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

Lim Kay Tong

Chief Detective Jagkrit

Details

Director

Jonathan Kaplan

Screenplay

David Arata

Tagline

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

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$25,000,000

Revenue

$10,115,013

Production

Two Girls Productions, Fox 2000 Pictures, Adam Fields Productions, 20th Century Fox

Reviews

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John Chard

July 18, 2014

★ 6/10

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 ...