Review of Brokedown Palace (1999) by Emer L — 26 Apr 2013
Take "Midnight Express" and cross it with an ABC Afterschool Special and you might get "Brokedown Place". Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsdale are teens wrongly imprisoned in Thailand for drug smuggling and then learn valuable lessons about responsibility.
Director Jonathan Kaplan has made some decent films, but this one is too lightweight to be taken seriously and it's also not silly enough to be enjoyed as camp. It's somewhere tediously and blandly in between.
It was kind of interesting to see an early American role for Kate Beckinsdale, but I think I might have liked this film more if it had decided to be more Jack Hill and was made as a big splashy Hollywood version of "The Big Doll House.
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This review of Brokedown Palace (1999) was written by Emer L on 26 Apr 2013.
Brokedown Palace has generally received mixed reviews.
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