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Return to Paradise

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Return to Paradise
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R,1hr 49min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1998
Director:
Joseph Ruben
Distributor:
Polygram USA Video
Starring:
Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Joaquin Phoenix  ...more
Synopsis: This remake of Force Majeure (aka Uncontrollable Circumstances), a 1989 film with Alan Bates and Kristin Scott Thomas, recalls the prison plight depicted in Midnight Express (1978). Rambling around Asia, getting high and just having a good time, are three young men -- Sheriff (Vince Vaughn), Lewis (Joaquin Phoenix), and Tony (David Conrad). Sheriff and Tony say goodbye to Lewis, a conscientious Greenpeace activist and nature-lover who stays on to rescue endangered Borneo orangutans. Two years later, ... Full Synopsis
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Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
The director, Joseph Ruben ("The Stepfather," "Sleeping With the Enemy"), uses a kind of flat, logical storytelling that leads us inexorably toward his conclusions. Full Review
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54
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out of 100
Based on 22 critic reviews
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