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Return To Paradise [DVD] [1998]

DVD ~ Vince Vaughn
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  • Actors: Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Joaquin Phoenix, David Conrad, Jada Pinkett-Smith
  • Directors: Joseph Ruben
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Universal Pictures UK
  • DVD Release Date: 3 Jul 2006
  • Run Time: 107 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000CCE20A
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 12,493 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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In Malaysia, three young Americans with little else in common are united in a shared enthusiasm for beer, women, and righteous hashish. Eventually, "Sheriff" (Vince Vaughn) and Tony (David Conrad) head back to New York. Lewis (Joaquin Phoenix), a spacey but good-hearted sort, stays on with the notion of helping save the orangutans. Two years later, a brassy lawyer (Anne Heche) shows up in Manhattan with the news that her client, Lewis, has spent the interim in Penang prison. Arrested for a prankish misdemeanor they all shared in, he's taking the rap for something worse: the dope stash they left him holding was a fatal few grams over the limit. Unless his fellow Americans return voluntarily to (literally) share the weight, in eight days Lewis will be hanged as a drug trafficker.

Eight days is about as long as Return to Paradise stayed on theatre screens--the victim, perhaps, of Anne Heche-Ellen DeGeneres burnout in the press, or just too damn many movies out there to keep track of. Whatever the reason, it's a pity, because this is one of the most compelling movie-movies in recent memory. The screenplay turns the ethical-psychological thumbscrews with insidious effectiveness, despite the probability that the two writers brought separate agendas to the project--Wesley (Cape Fear) Strick working the complicity of the two home boys (each represents the halving of the other's prison sentence if they both agree to go back), and Bruce (The Killing Fields) Robinson revving his engines for another face-off of implacable East and irresponsible West. And director Joseph Ruben, specialist in serving up B-movie excitement with class-A skill (Dreamscape, The Stepfather), does his sleekest work yet. But the real news is a trio of career-best performances: Phoenix, harrowing as a child-man whose sanity has been all but eaten away by terror; Vaughn limning a fascinating portrait of a man at war with himself, self-interest and furtive decency seesawing in his conscience; and Heche, part cagey poker player, part angel of mercy, mixing strength, delicacy, and desperation with devastating precision. Oscar blinked, three times. --Richard T. Jameson



Synopsis

Tony is a successful architect, ready to be married. Sheriff is a devil-may-care limo driver. Two years prior, they had been in Malaysia living the high life with a third buddy, Lewis. Lewis stayed on to continue their hedonistic lifestyle. His long-lost buddies don't know, however, that he is in prison, sentenced to die because of them. If a lawyer can persuade Tony and Sheriff to return to Malaysia and serve 3 years in the same prison, Lewis' life will be spared. Will they sacrifice that portion of their lives to save the life of a friend?

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Unsettling, 2 Aug 2006
By Ms. Caroline B. Pitt (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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To put it simply this started in such a way as to be one of those films you forget you ever saw, until about half way through. By the end it is a film which has stayed with me since I first saw it about 4 years ago and I still haven't been able to watch it again yet. Disturbing but only in the unsettling reality of it. A must see.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars What would you do?, 10 Aug 2007
By L. Kenyon (Scotland, UK) - See all my reviews
This film is about whether 2 friends will go back to Malaysia to save their friend's life who is set to be hung for possessing drugs that they all were responsible for. If they go back they save him yet have to spend 3 years each in a Malaysian prison.

The film is really thought provoking about what would you do yourself. Its a film about human nature and I found it really enjoyable while being uncomfortable to watch in parts. As someone else said here the content will stay with me for a long time.

Well worth a watch!!!
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11 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Return to Paradise, 25 Jan 2006
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The film started off slow and for the majority of the film it was about would the two guys go back to save Lewis's life. But it was one of those films that you had to watch the ending and I am glad I did as it had a surprising ending. Worth a look
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