Return to Paradise Page #2

Synopsis: Three friends share an exciting vacation in Malaysia, full of fun, drinks, women and hash. When the vacation is over, each have dreams of continuing their lives, and they all go their separate ways. One of them (Phoenix) remains on the tropical paradise to fulfill a dream of working with apes for research. Two years later, a lawyer (Heche) comes to New York and hunts down the other two friends to give some sad news. A few days after they left the island, police raided their camp and found amazingly large quantities of hash left about. Phoenix was still residing there, so he had to take the blame. He is set to be put to death in 8 days, and the only way the charges can be decreased is if the two friends come back to paradise and take their share of the responsibilty. If they do, they both will spend three years in prison. If only one does, he will spend six years behind bars...
Director(s): Joseph Ruben
Production: PolyGram Video
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
54
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%
R
Year:
1998
111 min
228 Views


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I'll push the f***ing thing. Here.

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Thank you.

72

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09:30,571 -- 00:09:33,240

- You know what?

- Oh!

73

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09:35,075 -- 00:09:37,648

Nice shot, Sheriff. Really.

74

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09:37,870 -- 00:09:41,819

- Oh, that's great.

- Let's get home. Come on.

75

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09:47,754 -- 00:09:49,581

Friends for life, man.

76

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09:49,798 -- 00:09:53,048

- You guys gotta give me your addresses.

- Yeah, give me yours.

77

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09:53,260 -- 00:09:56,961

When I get mine, I'll give you

my address, down there in Borneo.

78

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09:57,181 -- 00:09:59,553

- Where?

- Borneo.

79

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You got a girlfriend there, man?

80

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10:01,768 -- 00:10:05,932

No. I got the

Orang-utan Reintroduction Project.

81

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10:06,148 -- 00:10:10,192

- The what project?

- This group rescues orang-utans

82

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that have been kept as pets,

and integrates them back in the wild.

83

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10:13,906 -- 00:10:16,112

I'm gonna go down and volunteer.

84

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10:16,325 -- 00:10:19,907

Bro', if the apes need humans

to save them, then they're f***ed.

85

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10:20,120 -- 00:10:23,240

Pay no attention to him.

He's always dumping on somebody.

86

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10:23,457 -- 00:10:25,663

- That's cool.

- What about you, golden boy?

87

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10:25,876 -- 00:10:29,624

You can't wait to put all those things

you call buildings up in New York.

88

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10:29,838 -- 00:10:34,334

Skyscrapers. No, man, they'll be

beautiful. Touching the clouds.

89

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10:35,427 -- 00:10:39,377

You guys don't realise how good

you have it right now, right here.

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So eager to get on

with your charmed lives

91

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that you miss what's happening now.

92

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You know what I mean?

93

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We got mellow hash, right?

94

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10:52,194 -- 00:10:54,601

We got coconuts filled with rum.

95

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We got beautiful, gracious chicks that

like us just cos we're Yankees and tall.

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- Some of us.

- And you've got this warm, calm water.

97

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It's like God's own bathtub

or something, man.

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11:09,336 -- 00:11:13,500

Hey, Lew, are you really gonna stay here

and try to save those gorillas?

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- Yeah.

- That's cool, man.

100

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That's totally cool, Lew. Totally cool.

101

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You sound, uh, interested.

You wanna join me?

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The flight's tomorrow.

Can't change the ticket. No refund.

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Wesley Strick

Wesley Strick (born February 11, 1954) is an American screenwriter who has written such films as the comic-horror hit Arachnophobia, the Martin Scorsese remake of Cape Fear and the videogame adaptation Doom. Since 2015, Strick has worked as a writer/executive producer on The Man in the High Castle (Amazon TV series). more…

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