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Return to Paradise (1998)

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Release Date: August 14, 1998
Genre: Crime, Drama, Suspense
Running Time: 111 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated R for language, drug content, some sexuality and a scene of violence.
Director: Joseph Ruben
Writer: Bruce Robinson, Wesley Strick
Cast: Joel De La Fuente, Ming Lee, Jada Pinkett, Nick Sandow, Vera Farmiga, David Conrad, Joaquin Phoenix, Anne Heche, Vince Vaughn

Return to Paradise is about the transformation of a lost soul, a man who rescues himself while desperately trying to save another, and the important choices that define-and perhaps save-a life.

College grads Sheriff (Vince Vaughn), Lewis (Joaquin Phoenix) and Tony (David Conrad) meet by chance and become close friends while touring Asia on vacation. They close out a month-long trip to Penang, Malaysia with a reckless spree that two years later would test the Read more

Movie Review

Grade: C+ Three men spend some time in Malaysia doing drugs, sleeping with women, and just having fun. One of them decides to stay behind and join an organization to help orangutans. The other two return to their normal lives in New York. Two years later, a woman comes to the two men and says that Lewis, the guy that stayed behind, was arrested two years ago for possession of drugs and is going to be hanged in eight days. Unless the other two men return to serve three years in prison. Read the full movie review

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