Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Emma Roberts | ... | Uma | |
Danielle Macdonald | ... | Chloe | |
Awkwafina | ... | Yu | |
Eiza González | ... | Amarna | |
Milla Jovovich | ... | The Duchess | |
Jeremy Irvine | ... | Markus | |
Arnaud Valois | ... | Son | |
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Daniel Horvath | ... | Favorite 1 |
Joey Sordyl | ... | Favorite 2 | |
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Nancy Jack | ... | Eloise |
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Julia Stresen-Reuter Ramírez | ... | Uma (7) |
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Ted Stresen-Reuter | ... | Uma's Father |
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Erica Bertamini Hoashi | ... | Resident Girl 1 (as Erica Bertamini) |
Lesley Grant | ... | Resident Girl 2 | |
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Lea Isabel Schaaf | ... | Resident Girl 3 (as Lea Schaaf) |
In an undetermined future, society has divided in two types: upper-class or "superiors", and the rest of the world, mid and lower-class, named "inferiors". Uma is a superior teen girl who reluctant to marry with another superior named Son to be fall in love of an inferior named Markus, her mother sends her to Paradise Hills, a school for young ladies to reform rebel girls located in a remote island in the middle of the ocean. Waking up in Paradise not knowing how she arrived there, in the island she meets another students of the school: Amarna, a world pop star who was sent after she decided sing her own songs against the will of her parents and the music company that produces her albums; Chloe, an over-weight girl which parents want to turn her in a perfect woman, thin and complaint; and Yu, an inferior that after the loss of her parents was sent with her superiors aunt and uncle, who wants to make perfect and superior as them. At the same time that Uma meets the eccentric and ... Written by Chockys
Nice and interesting looks/visuals meet slow plot and a too obvious/blunt metaphor to our modern society (or the critic of) - some of the twists are rather flat (the resolution) or the nature of the Dutchess (how does that make any sense) is out of place. The more you watch the inflation of movies one realizes that writing a good book or script is an art of its own that not many really master. That's in my opinion the weak spot of most movie productions in recent years - the script/story. Anyway, like said, Paradise Hills got nice visuals, a pro production and good acting but lacks heavily any quality regarding the story told. Also I must say (just an example), the rather "well build" girl did - despise the rigorose diet in Paradise Hills - not lose one pound of weight in the movie, but that's the difference a dedicated actor makes - sometimes you gotta do more than just talk and act to fit into or fill a role. To sum it up: mediocre, okay if you wanna some balm for your eyes. Paradise Hills reminds me a lot of The Dead Don't Die - both movies are rather a waste of talent and means and a missed opportunity to make something good and memorable.