Overview:
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.| Status: | Released (1998-08-10) |
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| Awards: | 2 nominations |
| BoxOffice: | $8,341,087 |
| Screen: | Pierre Jolivet, Olivier Schatzky, Wesley Strick |
| Productions: | Tetragram, Propaganda Films, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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- 4937: Vince Vaughn - John 'Sheriff' Volgecherev
- 8256: Anne Heche - Beth Eastern
- 73421: Joaquin Phoenix - Lewis McBride
- 43479: David Conrad - Tony Croft
- 9575: Jada Pinkett Smith - M.J. Major
- 21657: Vera Farmiga - Kerrie
- 95519: Nick Sandow - Ravitch
Crews
- 52629: Joseph Ruben - Director - Directing
- 17880: Wesley Strick - Screenplay - Writing
- 8966: Bruce Robinson - Screenplay - Writing
- 21504: Pierre Jolivet - Novel - Writing
- 9989: Mark Mancina - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 4869: Craig McKay - Editor - Editing
- 17948: Reynaldo Villalobos - Director of Photography - Camera
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_**Great moral conundrum and message, but too contrived**_ "Return to Paradise" (1998) is about three Americans in Malaysia. Two of them are friends from New York City (Vincent Vaughn and David Conrad) and the other they meet there, an environmental-hippie type (Joaquin Phoenix). ....
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