Return to Paradise is a 1998 film directed by Joseph Ruben, written by Wesley Strick and Bruce Robinson and starring Anne Heche, Joaquin Phoenix and Vince Vaughn. Return to Paradise is a remake of a French film released in 1989, Force majeure. Return to Paradise was released a year before Brokedown Palace, which has a similar storyline of drugs in South East Asia. Return to Paradise begins with a silent montage of a fun holiday in a Malaysian paradise showing the three main male characters in the movie having a great time. The opening scenes of the movie remain in Malaysia with a series of... pulsating events providing the men with a myriad of hardships, including a scene when the young men are almost run over by a car while riding a bicycle and another when they are pressured into buying some tonic drink from Malaysian locals. Eventually, the three men, Lewis McBride , Sheriff and Tony wind up at their beach front house on the ocean pondering their future in the island paradise. Tony and Sheriff decide to return to New York, while Lewis, being a "greeny", wishes to travel to Borneo to save endangered orangutans.
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| Release date: | August 14, 1998 |
| Directed by: | Joseph Ruben |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 111 Minutes |
| Producer: | Steve Golin, Alain Bernheim |
| Editor: | Craig McKay, Andrew Mondshein |
| Music by: | Mark Mancina |
| Cinematography: | Reynaldo Villalobos |
| Screenplay by: | Wesley Strick, Bruce Robinson, Olivier Schatzky, Pierre Jolivet |
| Genre: | Thriller |