Brokedown Palace

Two carefree Americans embark on an overseas vacation that soon becomes a nightmare in this powerful drama. Alice (Claire Danes) is a headstrong teenager who wants to do something different to celebrate her high school graduation, so she persuades her more reserved best friend Darlene (Kate ...more

Judged by its story, pace, production, exotic locales, and realistic acting, Brokedown Palace is every bit as good as 1978's drug-smuggling saga Midnight Express, coming closest to the earlier feature in content and tone. So why is it that Midnight Express is considered a cautionary classic, while Palace barely made ten million at the box office in an age when many movies make that in the first weekend? Because Palace, with its palpable paranoia and stomach-churning inevitability, is not an easy ...more