Return to Paradise Page #7

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


532

00:
48:51,932 -- 00:48:53,474

Yeah.

533

00:
49:01,984 -- 00:49:06,147

They just told me

that they weighed Lewis today

534

00:
49:06,363 -- 00:49:09,032

for the trap doors of the gallows.

535

00:
49:12,828 -- 00:49:15,533

- Beth...

- Get out of here.

536

00:
49:19,960 -- 00:49:22,249

Get the f*** out of here, Sheriff.

537

00:
50:46,338 -- 00:50:50,087

- Sheriff is here.

- What do you say? How're you doing?

538

00:
50:50,300 -- 00:50:54,547

- I thought you had plans.

- I did. A thing at Lincoln Center.

539

00:
50:54,763 -- 00:51:00,636

You know what I mean? But here I am.

Ready to discuss. What did I order?

540

00:
51:00,853 -- 00:51:04,435

Sheriff, this is Kerrie, my fiance.

Kerrie, John Volgecherev.

541

00:
51:04,648 -- 00:51:06,391

Kerrie, nice to meet you.

542

00:
51:06,608 -- 00:51:10,736

You're not as platinum

as I expected you to be.

543

00:
51:16,410 -- 00:51:18,698

Listen, Sheriff...

544

00:
51:18,912 -- 00:51:23,574

It's pretty obvious that you have

no intention of going back, right?

545

00:
51:27,754 -- 00:51:29,794

Where?

546

00:
51:30,883 -- 00:51:34,631

- Is he drunk?

- Oh, you mean, like, back to prison.

547

00:
51:34,845 -- 00:51:37,383

Right, well, I've never actually been.

548

00:
51:38,599 -- 00:51:40,924

Do you have a fork I could use?

549

00:
51:41,143 -- 00:51:46,268

I've never been to prison, thus, I can't

go back to somewhere I've never been.

550

00:
51:46,481 -- 00:51:49,685

Thank you.

That is brilliantly unhelpful.

551

00:
51:49,902 -- 00:51:52,523

- Yes.

- Beth, I checked.

552

00:
51:52,738 -- 00:51:56,320

Penang Prison is at a third-world level

of sanitation, nutrition,

553

00:
51:56,533 -- 00:51:58,775

rice rations don't meet minimum...

554

00:
51:58,994 -- 00:52:03,122

Lewis is provided with food from Amnesty

International. So would Tony be.

555

00:
52:03,332 -- 00:52:06,001

- Inmates have been tortured.

- He hasn't been.

556

00:
52:06,210 -- 00:52:09,709

- Inmates have died of typhus.

- Because of overcrowding.

557

00:
52:09,922 -- 00:52:13,291

Lewis has his own cell, as would Tony,

and Sheriff if he goes back.

558

00:
52:13,509 -- 00:52:18,052

That's really good. And the other thing

I think you've overlooked

559

00:
52:18,263 -- 00:52:21,015

is that that building's not up to code.

560

00:
52:21,225 -- 00:52:23,597

- Oh, Jesus.

- What are you, the class clown?

561

00:
52:23,810 -- 00:52:26,811

And who are you to tell them

to give up their freedom?

562

00:
52:27,022 -- 00:52:29,180

I represent a boy sentenced to death.

563

00:
52:29,399 -- 00:52:32,021

Right. For the sake of some client,

you demand...

564

00:
52:32,236 -- 00:52:36,862

Demand? No, no, no. I don't demand.

I have not demanded anything.

565

00:
52:37,074 -- 00:52:41,368

...that they endure three or six years

of God knows what. That's insane.

566

00:
52:41,578 -- 00:52:43,986

Yeah, it's insane, OK?

567

00:
52:48,210 -- 00:52:51,246

- I'm gonna go back.

- What?

568

00:
52:53,090 -- 00:52:54,964

OK?

569

00:
52:57,761 -- 00:53:00,217

I'm sorry, honey.

570

00:
53:01,306 -- 00:53:03,632

In the middle of this, what matters?

571

00:
53:04,893 -- 00:53:08,393

That Lewis doesn't die.

Somebody's got to do something. Please.

572

00:
53:12,442 -- 00:53:15,147

Where's the document

that guarantees this deal?

573

00:
53:17,281 -- 00:53:20,732

The Attorney General of Malaysia

has agreed...

574

00:
53:20,951 -- 00:53:23,738

So where is it?

Why don't we have a copy?

575

00:
53:25,038 -- 00:53:27,446

- It's an oral agreement.

- No.

576

00:
53:27,666 -- 00:53:30,157

Tony goes nowhere

till we have that document.

577

00:
53:30,377 -- 00:53:32,785

They don't work that way.

I wish they did.

578

00:
53:33,005 -- 00:53:35,211

I cannot get anything to you in writing.

579

00:
53:37,009 -- 00:53:39,500

Don't.

580

00:
53:39,720 -- 00:53:42,471

I'll be at home if you want me.

581

00:
53:48,478 -- 00:53:51,266

Sorry, Tony. I'm sorry.

582

00:
53:51,481 -- 00:53:54,981

She's just scared, all right?

She's more scared than I am.

583

00:
53:59,198 -- 00:54:01,867

You're gonna have to excuse me.

584

00:
54:02,075 -- 00:54:04,827

If I'm gonna get her

to wait three years for me...

585

00:
54:08,081 -- 00:54:10,370

I guess six...

586

00:
54:11,502 -- 00:54:14,123

I shouldn't keep her waiting tonight.

587

00:
54:14,338 -- 00:54:16,745

Tony, what can I say? Thank you.

588

00:
54:18,926 -- 00:54:20,669

Sure.

589

00:
54:21,637 -- 00:54:24,009

All right, Tony.

590

00:
54:24,223 -- 00:54:27,259

- See you, man.

- See you later. Good luck with that.

591

00:
54:28,727 -- 00:54:31,977

Right, Sheriff.

I'll go talk to the firm.

592

00:
54:36,026 -- 00:54:38,517

Well, quite a party.

593

00:
54:44,826 -- 00:54:47,697

- Are you gonna go back to your hotel?

- Oh, yes.

594

00:
54:47,913 -- 00:54:50,321

Gotta call Penang.

Give them the good news.

595

00:
54:50,541 -- 00:54:53,078

So I guess Lew's gonna be OK then, huh?

596

00:
54:54,211 -- 00:54:57,081

Which means, you know...

597

00:
54:57,297 -- 00:55:00,002

You're off the hook?

598

00:
55:00,217 -- 00:55:02,790

- I'm off the hook, huh?

- Good night.

599

00:
56:10,287 -- 00:56:13,074

Jaffe, I want a follow-up

on the Canarsie fire.

600

00:
56:13,290 -- 00:56:16,125

- Nice of you to join us, Ravitch.

- It's my pleasure.

601

00:
56:16,335 -- 00:56:19,205

I'd like some pictures

of the shopkeeper, burnt out.

602

00:
56:19,421 -- 00:56:20,915

You got it.

603

00:
56:21,131 -- 00:56:23,705

MJ, where's my pension fund fraud?

604

00:
56:23,926 -- 00:56:26,298

I thought you had a CPA

who was ready to talk.

605

00:
56:26,512 -- 00:56:29,299

I did. And she's given me gold.

606

00:
56:29,515 -- 00:56:31,756

I'm just fact-checking a few points.

607

00:
56:31,975 -- 00:56:35,427

And I'm looking for a source

called Sheriff.

608

00:
56:36,897 -- 00:56:40,348

Ring anybody's bell? Sheriff?

609

00:
56:40,567 -- 00:56:43,105

OK. Let's go, then.

610

00:
57:12,349 -- 00:57:15,385

i- Yeah?

- Hi. It's Beth./i

611

00:
57:15,602 -- 00:57:19,386

I talked to the garage

and they said you called in sick.

612

00:
57:19,606 -- 00:57:23,853

i- Can I come up and see you?

- Uh... sure./i

613

00:
57:30,576 -- 00:57:32,449

- Hi.

- Hi there.

614

00:
57:32,661 -- 00:57:36,077

- Hi there.

- I brought some goodies from Zabar's.

615

00:
57:36,290 -- 00:57:38,911

Jewish penicillin. Cure you right up.

616

00:
57:39,126 -- 00:57:42,329

Isn't that nice? Should I beware

of lawyers bearing gifts?

617

00:
57:44,840 -- 00:57:47,295

Think I'm gonna have a beer.

Do you want one?

618

00:
57:47,509 -- 00:57:50,510

Uh... beer? Sure.

619

00:
57:52,639 -- 00:57:54,965

You're quite the avid reader,

aren't you?

620

00:
57:55,184 -- 00:57:57,721

- Or is this just...

- Yeah, just for showing off.

621

00:
57:57,936 -- 00:58:01,305

All the visitors I have. I keep my place

real impressive, don't I?

622

00:
58:01,523 -- 00:58:03,516

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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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