Directed by: Jonathan Kaplan
Writing credits: Adam Fields, David Arata
Movie Genre: Drama
Released: 1999
Running Time: 100 minutes
Rating: PGL
Brokedown Palace is a 1999 film directed by Jonathan Kaplan.
Alice and Darlene, friends since birth, have just finished high school. They are planning a summer vacation in Hawaii, but they hear Bangkok is even better.
Off they go... without telling their parents about the change in plans.
Bangkok's fun, but they're not crazy about their six-dollars-a-night accommodation. They try for a swim at a luxury hotel, but there's some trouble when it's time to pay for their drinks.
As luck would have it, they're rescued by a roving software consultant, Nick Parks, an Australian. Nick's a good guy, although he can't decide which girl he's after.
He tells the pair that Hong Kong is great, and he's willing to exchange his first class plane ticket for three economies. The girls rush to catch their flight out. At the airport, the police suddenly arrive and discover the girls have heroin in their backpacks...
Darlene's father has no luck freeing the girls from prison, even when he looks for help from the local DEA agents. But there's a sleazy lawyer, Hank Green, who may be able to do something - for a price...
Tagline: They were willing to go anywhere for the perfect summer. Until a stranger changed everything.