Return to Paradise

Name: Return to Paradise
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Romance
Released: August 14, 1998
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 54
Cast: Anne Heche, Joaquin Phoenix, Vince Vaughn

1998

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MCA/Universal Pictures | Release Date: August 14, 1998 | R

Starring: Anne Heche, Joaquin Phoenix, Vince Vaughn

Summary: Return to Paradise is a twisted thriller of passion and betrayal in which two men face the decision of a lifetime. (Universal)

Director: Joseph Ruben

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 111 min

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Roger Ebert

The director, Joseph Ruben ("The Stepfather," "Sleeping With the Enemy"), uses a kind of flat, logical storytelling that leads us inexorably toward his conclusions. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Return to Paradise is "Midnight Express" remade from the outside, as existential quandary. It has the moody, disquieting undertow of a true moral thriller. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

None of the moral ramifications of this dilemma is avoided, and to the film’s credit the behavior of the American press seems more questionable than the machinations of third-world justice. Read full review

Elvis Mitchell

The film's cool, sober texture and its clever characters are often more interesting than the larger plot. Read full review

Peter Travers

What if director Joseph Ruben didn't resort to B-movie suspense tricks? What if the fine cast wasn't saddled with a shamelessly contrived script by Wesley Strick and Bruce Robinson? Then Return to Paradise would be a better movie, that's what if. Read full review

David Sterritt

The story raises challenging moral and legal questions but loses energy in a miscalculated romantic subplot. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

Unfortunately, the dramatic potential of such a moral quandary is left largely unmined in director Joseph Ruben's monotonous parlor game of will-he-won't-he. [14 Aug 1998, Pg. N.39]

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