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  • Actors: Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Pullman, Jacqueline Kim, Lou Diamond Phillips
  • Directors: Jonathan Kaplan
  • Writers: Adam Fields, David Arata
  • Producers: A. Kitman Ho, Adam Fields, Lope V. Juban Jr.
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English, Thai
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 30 Jun 2003
  • Run Time: 97 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00006420Y
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 12,300 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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2.35 Wide Screen
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital 5.1
Cast And Crew Biographies
Theatrical Trailer
Croatian\Czech\Danish\English\Finnish\Hebrew\Hungarian\Icelandic\Norwegian\Polish\Portuguese\Swedish\Turkish


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 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.

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A LESSON TO REMEMBER..., 11 Nov 2002
By Lawyeraau (Balmoral Castle) - See all my reviews
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This is the story of two girls, Alice Marano (Claire Danes) and Darlene Davis (Kate Beckinsale), who are best friends. Alice is from a blue collar background, while Darlene's family is white collar. They have just graduated from high school and are supposed to be going on a trip to Hawaii to celebrate, except that Alice convinces Darlene that they should, instead, go a more exotic location. So, while telling their parents they are off to Hawaii, they end up going to Thailand, where they flop in a six dollar a night fleabag hotel, replete with roaches the size of potatoes.

They hook up with a handsome, young Australian named Nick Parks (Daniel Lapaine), who engages their confidence and with whom they briefly end up hanging out. Alice and Darlene find themselves competing for his interest. He then invites them to accompany him for a weekend in Hong Kong and, ultimately, both agree. While at the airport to board their flight to Hong Kong, they suddenly discover themselves under arrest, as one of their backpacks is found to contain a large cache of drugs, much to their collective surprise.

The girls then begin a journey through the Tibetan criminal justice system, which appears to be a corrupt one and especially harsh on the drug trafficking of which they are accused. Alice, the more savvy one, declines to sign anything, while Darlene, the more naive of the two, signs a statement written in Thai that she believes to be a transcript of her own words, only later to find that she has signed a complete confession. Even after obtaining legal representation from an expatriate attorney named Yankee Hank Green (Bill Pullman), they still end up being sentenced to a very long prison term. This is where the movie starts focusing on what it is really all about, their friendship.

Excellent performances are given by Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale, as well as Bill Pullman. While Claire Danes give her somewhat hard edged character a certain vulnerability, somehow the viewer knows that she could probably do the time to which she is sentenced while standing on her head. Kate Beckinsale imbues her her character with a fragility that lets the viewer know that if she stays in that Tibetan prison for very long, she will be a goner.

While the ending comes as somewhat of a surprise, it is somehow fitting. Yet, at the same time it is puzzling, as it is almost as if there were an atonement involved, but the viewer is left guessing as for what. The film is a compelling one, but in the final analysis falls somewhat short of its mark, with questions unanswered and motives left open to speculation. Still, the film manages to entertain, notwithstanding these shortcomings.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Brokedown Palace - Guilty of being a good film?, 27 May 2002
In Brokedown Palace we see Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale give excellent performances in their respective roles of Alice Marano and Darlene Davis - the unassuming drug mules of nasty Nick Parks. The films plot is often predictable and somewhat naive, but the quality of the acting more than compensates for it. Ok, the prison is relatively tame and neither of the girls seem too bothered by the prospect of serving 33 years in a foreign jain, but the ending is highly original ,and in turn, is the films saving grace. Combine this with a knockout soundtrack and the raw talent of Claire Danes, and you have yourself a very entertaining and moving film.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Blows you away, 8 May 2002
Rarely (if ever) does a film bring tears to my eyes, and it would have remained so had it not been for Claire Danes's magnificent performance as the young American woman Alice Marano who is imprisoned in Thailand for alleged drug smuggling.
The movie itself has a good storyline, but with average actors would not be anything to write home about. Danes lifts the movie from averagely good to breathtakingly powerful. Her performance will literally blow you away.
If you are a fan of this fine young actress,with a brilliant track record from the TV series "My So-Called Life" and Baz Luhrmanns revisionist epic of Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, this film will only strengthen your convictions. With a killer soundtrack to boot, this film is a keeper. Buy it - you will not regret it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brokedown Palace is a superb film
My partner says this is an excellent film & wishes he had brought it ages ago. The case was in very good condition and the delivery was first class. Would highly recommend. 5*
Published 1 month ago by Mrs. S. Savage

4.0 out of 5 stars Very very good
I bought this DVD as I had previously owned the film on video and having watched it again I never realised how good it was - maybe was too young to understand first time round... Read more
Published 5 months ago by A girl with "mixed" taste

4.0 out of 5 stars Powerful, if flawed, tale of modern friendship
The other reviewers have basically explained the story, so I won't bother except to clarify that the movie is set in Thailand and not Tibet! Read more
Published on 13 Jan 2004 by theplaceboswork

5.0 out of 5 stars A moving story of friendship
I have to admit I picked this up in the budget section on a boring Sunday afternoon and was pleasently surprised. Read more
Published on 6 Nov 2003 by K. E. Donlon

5.0 out of 5 stars A Tale of Friendship
Dismissed by some as lightweight because they felt the Thailand prison scenes were not brutal enough this is actually a terrific film about the complex friendshp of two girls and... Read more
Published on 14 Feb 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars Brillient and thrilling!
Brokedown Palace is one of my best films ever.
It is about two girls (claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale)((who are brillient)) go to Thailand for a holiday. Read more
Published on 28 Mar 2002 by D. E. Wood

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