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Brokedown Palace
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Best friends Alice and Darlene take a trip to Thailand after graduating high school. In Thailand, they meet a captivating Australian man, who calls himself Nick Parks. Darlene is particularly smitten with Nick and convinces Alice to take Nick up on his offer to treat the two of them to what amounts to a day trip to Hong Kong. In the airport, the girls are seized by the police and shocked to discover that one of their bags contains heroin.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to emotionally heavy cautionary dramas about friendship, vulnerability, and harsh consequences in an unfamiliar legal system.
- Tone
- tense, bleak, melancholic
- Payoff
- catharsis, heartbreak
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- friendship, injustice, cultural displacement, imprisonment, coming of age
- Setting
- late twentieth century, tourist destinations and foreign prison
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