Watch: Return to Paradise 1998 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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….
Plot: Lewis, Sheriff and Tony are three friends vacationing in Malaysia. Sheriff and Tony eventually leave to pursue careers in New York, but Lewis stays behind to work with orangutans. Two years later, Sheriff and Tony learn that, because of their past actions, Lewis has been arrested for drug possession. With Lewis facing a death sentence, the friends are left with a difficult decision: return to Malaysia and split Lewis’ sentence, or let him die.
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A deep thinking movie
This movie makes you think on several levels. First of all, regardless of your stance on drugs, do you have the right to ingest it where they disallow it? It’s fine if you are at home in your country, but when you are in a different country with different laws, then shouldn’t you comply with those laws, just as you’d expect a guest in your home to respect your house rules? On a different vein, it also makes you wonder how strong your bonds of friendship with your mates are? Are they strong enough to weather 3 years in prison (and Malaysian prisons are not like what you’d find in an American prison)? Are you willing to waste 3 years of a so far successful life so that a friend does not hang? Another point of concern was the sensitivity of people. Even when told of what her actions might imply to the Malaysian judge and what this means for the prisoner, the reporter refuses and goes on to file a scathing report on the Malaysian justice system, and while she gets the credits, the prisoner gets the punishment. If the death penalty is legal in America where the story’s from, then why should the use of capital punishment by another country for crimes it hold responsible for social decay and anarchy be objectionable?
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 51 min (111 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Romance, Thriller
Director Joseph Ruben
Writer Pierre Jolivet, Olivier Schatzky, Wesley Strick
Actors Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Joaquin Phoenix
Country United States
Awards 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Super 35
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)