Brokedown Palace
“Their graduation present was a trip to paradise, but they never thought they would land in hell.”
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.
A vacation gone terribly wrong, this film plunges you into a suffocating nightmare of foreign prisons and systemic injustice. It's a stark, emotional descent into desperation, leaving you with a profound sense of helplessness and anger.
