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75
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The heart of the film is in the performances of Danes and Beckinsale after they're sent to prison.
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70
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The New York Times Stephen Holden
Brokedown Palace is good enough so that you wish it were better.
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67
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Entertainment Weekly
It's strangely enjoyable to see her(Danes) and Beckinsale busted on a bogus heroin-smuggling rap and thrown in the slammer with bad 'dos and no makeup.
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60
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Washington Post Desson Thomson
This is not a fantastic movie. But there's more to it than just an MTV-slickified "Midnight Express" starring two young, photogenic stars.
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50
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San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham
The specifics of their predicament are well handled -- being thrown in a Third World prison may be every tourist's nightmare -- even if the movie eventually goes soft and squishy.
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50
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Chicago Tribune Barbara Shulgasser
The movie, directed by veteran Jonathan Kaplan, has enough in common with such American-in-foreign-jail movies as "Midnight Express" and the recent "Return to Paradise" to make you wonder why it ever got made.
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50
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San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
Its finest moments come in sequences such as Alice and Darlene's prison break and the girls' final wrenching plea for freedom.
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50
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
We're stuck with contrived plot contortions, dull interpersonal interaction, and unconvincing dialogue.
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50
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
This is the kind of picture that is faux subtle when it should be bold, and really ham-handed when it should be delicate.
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40
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Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Just another lurid, contrived, xenophobic tale about Americans trapped in hideous foreign prisons.
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