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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.
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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