Return to Paradise R
Give up three years of their lives or give up the life of their friend. They have eight days to decide.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Originally Released: 1998
- Label: TGG Direct
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Vince Vaughn, Joaquin Phoenix & Anne Heche | |
Performer: | David Conrad | |
Directed by | Joseph Ruben | |
Edited by | Andrew Mondshein & Craig McKay | |
Screenwriting by | Wesley Strick & Bruce Robinson | |
Composition by | Mark Mancina | |
Produced by | Alain Bernheim & Steve Golin | |
Director of Photography: | Reynaldo Villalobos |
Entertainment Reviews:
It's a painful prospect, to be sure, and Sheriff, in particular, insists he's no hero, but the next hour or so of handwringing conjures little suspense.
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Time Out
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Like Sheriff and Tony, we're pulled both ways by the story: We want them to go back and save Lewis, but we're not exactly sure we'd do the same. That's the Prisoner's Dilemma in a nutshell.
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Chicago Sun-Times
What if director Joseph Ruben didn't resort to B-movie suspense tricks? What if the fine cast wasn't saddled with a shamelessly contrived script by Wesley Strick and Bruce Robinson?
Rolling Stone
Rating: 6/10 --
The acting is generally good -- Vaughn is very convincing as a man forced to make a difficult decision, while Joaquin Phoenix even more convincingly plays a man condemned to die.
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Vince Vaughn finally gives a performance putting him in the serious actor category, Joaquin Phoenix is notable and Anne Heche is believable as the impassioned attorney fighting for the life of her client.
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Film Threat
Rating: 3/4 --
The best performance in the film belongs to Anne Heche, who continues to impress with her range. Her work here is passionate, and she effectively conveys the inner conflict of a woman whose divided loyalties tear at her soul.
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ReelViews
Involving drama about our responsibilities to others.
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Classic Film and Television
Product Description:
Three friends share an exciting vacation in Malaysia, full of fun, drinks, women and hash. When the vacation is over, each have dreams of continuing their lives, and they all go their separate ways. One of them (Phoenix) remains on the tropical paradise to fulfill a dream of working with apes for research. Two years later, a lawyer (Heche) comes to New York and hunts down the other two friends to give some sad news. A few days after they left the island, police raided their camp and found amazingly large quantities of hash left about. Phoenix was still residing there, so he had to take the blame. He is set to be put to death in 8 days, and the only way the charges can be decreased is if the two friends come back to paradise and take their share of the responsibility. If they do, they both will spend three years in prison. If only one does, he will spend six years behind bars...
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