Brokedown Palace
1999 · Movie · PG-13 · 100 min · ★ 6.4 · 38% critics
Two close friends celebrate finishing high school with a trip to Thailand, where they meet a charming man who steers them toward a side trip to Hong Kong. When they return, police seize them at the airport and find heroin in their bags, leaving the women facing a frightening legal fight and prison life.
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Details
- Years
- 1999
- Release date
- 1999-08-13
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Critic score
- 38/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.4/10 (408 votes)
About
You’ll likely like Brokedown Palace if you enjoy intense friendship-driven dramas set abroad and fear-momentum travel nightmares like Midnight Express; Not for you if you want a light, escapist trip story or highly polished, consistently believable courtroom momentum.
Pros: tense, heartfelt friendship; strong leads; unsettling international ordeal | Cons: uneven realism; familiar prison-drama beats; legal moments feel weak
Themes
- prison
- thailand
- vacation
- drugs
- injustice
- trip
Cast & crew
Claire Danes
as Alice Marano
Kate Beckinsale
as Darlene Davis
Bill Pullman
as Hank Greene
Jacqueline Kim
as Yon Greene
Lou Diamond Phillips
as Roy Knox
Daniel Lapaine
as Nick Parks
Tom Amandes
as Doug Davis
Aimee Graham
as Beth Ann Gardener
John Doe
as Bill Marano
Lim Kay Tong
as Chief Detective Jagkrit
Directed by Jonathan Kaplan