Brokedown Palace
- Release Date: August 13, 1999
- Genre: Drama
- Director: Jonathan Kaplan
- Producer(s): Adam Fields
- Writer(s): Adam Fields, David Arata
- Studio: 20th Century Fox
- Official Site: www.foxmovies.com/brokedownpalace/
Synopsis
A cautionary tale about accepting gifts from strangers, this film finds two best friends in a Midnight Express, Return to Paradise dilemma. Following their high school graduation, Alice and Darlene head to exotic Thailand for some fun in the sun. Once there they meet a hunky Australian who persuades them to come along to Hong Kong at his expense. Of course, they’re being set up as drug mules and get caught with a suitcase full of heroin at the Bangkok airport. (The Aussie actually tips off the customs people to use the girls' arrest as a diversionary tactic to get his other mules through.)Unsuccessfully defended by a Thai lawyer and all but abandoned by their own government, the girls rot in a Thai prison, their only hope for salvation an American expatriate lawyer that they're none-too enamored with.