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Brokedown Palace (1999), directed by Jonathan Kaplan

12/27/2015

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Two teenage girls (Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale) take a trip to Thailand, meet a smooth-talking stranger, and get arrested for drug trafficking.  Facing 33 years in a Thai prison gives them plenty of time to learn such things as that the Thai government is corrupt, the silent treatment works, and having a roach burrow into your ear is decidedly not good for your health. A movie as naive as its protagonists and equally shallow.  Doesn't even work as a travel advisory, as the prison itself, though culturally different, isn't any worse -- and is in some ways better -- than a good old American lockup.  Pointless.  With Bill Pullman as a do-gooder lawyer who tries to help the girls.

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