Return to Paradise Page #3

Synopsis: Three friends share an exciting vacation in Malaysia, full of fun, drinks, women and hash. When the vacation is over, each have dreams of continuing their lives, and they all go their separate ways. One of them (Phoenix) remains on the tropical paradise to fulfill a dream of working with apes for research. Two years later, a lawyer (Heche) comes to New York and hunts down the other two friends to give some sad news. A few days after they left the island, police raided their camp and found amazingly large quantities of hash left about. Phoenix was still residing there, so he had to take the blame. He is set to be put to death in 8 days, and the only way the charges can be decreased is if the two friends come back to paradise and take their share of the responsibilty. If they do, they both will spend three years in prison. If only one does, he will spend six years behind bars...
Director(s): Joseph Ruben
Production: PolyGram Video
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
54
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%
R
Year:
1998
111 min
236 Views


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At least he's getting out

in eight days though, huh?

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That's not the case. Anybody found

with more than 100 grams of hashish

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is considered to be trafficking.

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Trafficking?

What is that, like, dealing?

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Sheriff, in order for Lewis

not to be considered a dealer,

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you and Tony have to fly back to Penang

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and accept your share

of the responsibility.

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And what about me and Tony?

What happens to us?

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The deal was that if both of you

go back, it's three years apiece,

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and if only one of you goes back,

it's six.

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Wait. Hold on. It's three? It's six?

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Finish that sentence for me please.

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You're talking about three years

in prison. Six years in prison.

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Let me make this clear to you.

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In Malaysia, dealers get death.

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Jesus Christ,

for a shitty brick of hash?

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- So in eight days from now...

- Lewis McBride is going to hang.

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What are you, his lawyer?

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I'm his American lawyer, yeah.

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So how about we have dinner

and talk more about this?

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I can't. I'm on till 2:00.

But thank you very much.

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- Drinks then?

- At 2:
00? Don't you sleep?

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- I want to do this more. Breakfast?

- Can't.

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- Lunch?

- I pulled a day shift.

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Let's have dinner then.

Tomorrow night. Here. Say 7:00?

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- Tomorrow at 7:
00.

- Night.

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Thanks.

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- Excuse me, I'm looking for Tony Croft.

- Yeah, he's up top.

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Thanks.

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So if you don't go back, Tony,

Lewis will hang.

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Sorry.

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You can't come out of nowhere and tell

me the bottom's dropped out of my life

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and I've got a week

to brace for the impact.

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I'm sorry, Tony.

That's exactly what I am doing.

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I don't understand. How come it took

you guys two years to tell me this?

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Lewis never mentioned the two of you.

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Not when he was convicted two years ago,

not when he was sentenced to death.

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It was only last week when

his final pardon appeal was rejected.

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I found a detective,

the second he found you, here I am.

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You gotta understand,

this isn'tjust about me, all right?

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Like anybody,

I have a lot of responsibilities.

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I'm engaged. I have a fiance.

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I want to start a family.

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Family's wonderful.

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Lewis would like to have kids too.

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If you can postpone having yours

for a few years, he'll have that chance.

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I'm staying at the Stanhope.

Could you call me there tonight?

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- All right. I will.

- Thanks. Thanks, Tony.

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i- This is Beth.

- Miss Eastern? Hi. It's Tony Croft./i

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- Tony, hi.

- Listen.

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Kerrie and I talked this over

and we want to, um...

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Well, first of all I wanna say...

this is ridiculous.

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There is no way in hell

that I'll do the six years.

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But if Sheriff agrees to go back...

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Um... well, that's another...

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Uh... In that case, um... you know,

it'd be pretty hard to say no.

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Uh... OK. What you've said

has been very clear.

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I'm about to have dinner with Sheriff.

I'll call you in the morning.

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i- All right. I'll talk to you then.

- Thank you, Tony./i

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Good night.

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- Hey.

- Hi.

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- Surprised I showed?

- No. Why?

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- Cos I am.

- Eastern party?

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- Yeah.

- Right this way.

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Thanks.

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- Would you care for a cocktail?

- Glass of house red.

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- OK.

- I'll have a rum and Coke, please.

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Thank you. Reminds me of Malaysia.

Rum and Coke.

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- So have you spoken to Tony?

- Yes, I did.

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- Yeah?

- Mm-hm.

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Tony said he was going to go back.

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Yeah? Tony said he was going to call me

when he got back from Penang.

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So...

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So what are you saying?

I can't count on Tony's word?

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No, I'm not saying that. Just, uh...

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I think it's good

Tony says he's going back.

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How come?

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- Because I'm...

- Excuse me. Your drinks.

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- Thanks.

- Thanks a lot.

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Tony's only going back

if you're going back.

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- You didn't say that.

- I didn't finish.

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OK, please finish then, Beth.

Finish what you were going to say.

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I don't expect you to do this

without some sort of compensation.

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Both of Lewis's parents have passed on.

They left a little something.

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How does $50,000 sound?

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$50,000? That sounds fine. Just fine.

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But for each year. $50,000 a year.

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Wesley Strick

Wesley Strick (born February 11, 1954) is an American screenwriter who has written such films as the comic-horror hit Arachnophobia, the Martin Scorsese remake of Cape Fear and the videogame adaptation Doom. Since 2015, Strick has worked as a writer/executive producer on The Man in the High Castle (Amazon TV series). more…

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