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Return to Paradise

Give up three years of their lives or give up the life of their friend. They have eight days to decide.

6.4 / 10

109 minutes

1998-08-10

English

US

Actors :

Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Joaquin Phoenix, David Conrad, Jada Pinkett Smith, Vera Farmiga, Nick Sandow, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Ming Lee, Joel de la Fuente, Richard Chang, James McCauley, Brette Taylor, Deanna Yusoff, David Zayas

Description

Lewis, Sheriff and Tony are three friends vacationing in Malaysia. Sheriff and Tony eventually leave to pursue careers in New York, but Lewis stays behind to work with orangutans. Two years later, Sheriff and Tony learn that, because of their past actions, Lewis has been arrested for drug possession. With Lewis facing a death sentence, the friends are left with a difficult decision: return to Malaysia and split Lewis' sentence, or let him die.

Reviews

Wuchak

Wuchak

1/15/2022, 7:22:54 AM

_**Great moral conundrum and message, but too contrived**_ "Return to Paradise" (1998) is about three Americans in Malaysia. Two of them are friends from New York City (Vincent Vaughn and David Conrad) and the other they meet there, an environmental-hippie type (Joaquin Phoenix). The three have a great time partying together and then the two from New York go back to the grind in the USA. Two ye...