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@ Return to Paradise *%#* Starring Vince
Vaughn, Anne Heche and Joaquin
Phoenix. Now playing.

Ifa guy you'd only known for five weeks was

sentenced to death and you could save him if

you'd do a little jail time in a third-world
prison, what would
you do?

This is the crux of
Return to Paradise,
the thought-provok-
ing morality play of
the summer.

The story opens
_ With three young
“ men enjoying a
drugs-and-sex romp Rare

jJuue Crawrorp
‘going their separate Sanaa
ways and getting or MOVIE REVIEWS
with real life. Ir

‘Vince Vaugon) has returned to
icker lifestyle in: New York City. Tony
id Conrad) is based in N.Y. too, now a
cessful architect and soon to be married.
in Phoenix), who stayed
in ve the. orangutans, found him-
If riabbed with the leftover dope —
gixdope to sénterice him to death.
st:Anne. Heche as lawyer Beth

astern: who has cight.days-to convince the |
could easily

to. return to Malaysia and accept their
of the responsibi ity. If both men

‘only oie goes back it’s six years.
_ Lhe film intentionally side-steps the:
of whether it’s just for Lewis to be on
< ‘the first place. It’s dismissed .

wis, it’s three years apicce.

el gap between Eastern‘and: “Western /

systems. Thankfully we w

P'
i¢ “rah-rah America” attitude .
guilty of, In fact, Western:

zed for self-righteous med-
| princess.
ances in this film are excel-
J cluding those by minor characters
He va Farmiga as Tony’s fiancee).
eche adds humanity t to the role of

RETURN to Paradise star Anne Heche

will also be in the remake of Psycho.

the lawyer who would do anything to bring

her client back alive. Vince Vaughn brings
just the ri
have been ruined by too much
wailing and hand-wringing.

And Joaquin Phoenix, for his little

screen time, leaves a haunting i impression as

Lewis, who refuses to implicate his friends
until he faces the noose.
. Based loosely on the 1990 French film

. Force: Majeure (the new milk-toast name

like: ly 1 more palatable to American audi-
ences}, Return to Paradise suffers from the

occasional lapse in intensity but manages to

maintain enough suspense to last "tll the

. refreshingly un-Hollywood ending.

There are no easy ways out. The film
does a good job of offering us a chance to
examine our own consciences, without hit-
ting us over the head to do it.

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