Return to Paradise

Is Return to Paradise right for your family?

Movie 1998 109 min

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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Provisional estimate — not yet fully analyzed. R (US)

Likely present: ViolenceRomance & relationshipsHeavy emotional content

The threat of a death sentence for drug possession and the friends' difficult decision indicate a strong presence of violence and emotional themes.

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