dale-51649 Basically a couple of high school BFFs take a post grad trip to Thailand and meet a cute guy from Australia. He's a sleaze, but so are they. They end up both throwing him one, in sequence, within hours of meeting the lucky dude. Turns out he is not only using them for sex, but also for reasons more dangerous.This film would have been better as a spoof. There is one line that is sort of its pivot point, when Danes says "I wasn't that scared in jail, I''ve had worse hair cuts". They should have taken it from there and gone with the obligatory GIRL FIGHT:' Picture this : Beckensale " :shut up , clown nose, get your own man" Danes : f"stuff it, you pompous pixie nose Brit., without famous parents you'd be making BBC infomercials with that half sis of yours". Then they could spin round and round with a handful of hair. It could have been a slap stick bonanza, and they should have seized the day.Instead they go down the old movie of the week path, violins and all. The story is also sort of confusing, where its tough to tell who knew what when. Did they know about the drugs? Did one? Did both help plant it? I don't know if that is intentional, or if it's just bad writing. They also left you "hanging," literally, when it came to the "lesbe friends" overtones. Oh sure, Danes was pretty aggressive in some scenes (yikes), but they missed a golden opportunity to go anywhere with it.

bill-02458 In a relentlessly grim film, Lou Diamond Phillips gives a memorable performance in a near-cameo as American officio Roy Knox. His self-mocking, bottomless cynicism would be funny in almost any other film, but here the humour only deepens the despair.(I have not read all the 189 other reviews, so his performance may have already been discussed.If so, I apologize, but short as it was, it showed a range of talent I didn't know he possessed and thought it should be noted.)

SnoopyStyle Ex pat American Henry 'Yankee Hank' Greene (Bill Pullman) receives a tape from Alice pleading her case. Life long friends Darlene Davis (Kate Beckinsale) and irresponsible Alice Marano (Claire Danes) traveled to Thailand after high school graduation before leaving for college. They are befriended by charming hustler Australian Nick Parks (Daniel Lapaine) who rescued them at a high class hotel. Darlene started going with Nick and convinced Alice to travel to Hong Kong. Two tins of heroin are slipped into Alice's bag and the girls are interrogated by the police. Darlene is tricked into signing a false conviction in Thai. Darlene's father (Tom Amandes) believes that Alice is guilty. They are both sentenced to 33 years. Embassy staff Roy Knox (Lou Diamond Phillips) is too jaded to find Nick Park.The movie doesn't really work until the girls get arrested. That's when things start to get interesting. Before that, the girls are simple, naive and entitled. The movie is better to condense that section much more. That part is predictably bland. The girls' relationship gets better and more complicated in prison. Overall, there are other better third world prison movies around.

paulispinel This movie was so much better than I expected. Towards the end i was foolish enough to think that it'd have a happy ending and that they would get out and blah blah, but the real ending had to happen, the cruel reality and it was the only way out for Dar, since it was pretty clear that neither of them would get free. I also enjoyed and appreciated the acting.A journey into Alice and Dar's friendship, two teenage best friends that just wanted to have fun but things didn't come out as planned. I was crying like a baby at the end. It is a powerful, sad and unfair one but maybe, it was the right thing to do, like Alice said. I wish it was longer, or had some sort of sequel. A truly touching movie about true friendship and I highly recommend it!