The girls agree, but the prosecutor double-crosses them. Warned that Parks has influential friends in the Thai government, Hank arranges a deal with a corrupt prosecutor to secure a pardon for the girls if they recant their claim about his involvement and take full responsibility for smuggling the drugs. When she becomes ill after a cockroach gets in her ear, Alice pays a guard to organise for both girls to escape, but they are caught before they make it to the car waiting outside and are later served extended sentences.
As time goes by, Darlene begins to struggle with the violence and squalor of prison. She tells Alice she has ruined her life Darlene’s dad also blames Alice since she was always causing trouble as a young child. Hank discovers Parks tipped off the Thai police about Alice and Darlene as a distraction to make sure his other mules could get through.ĭarlene learns that Alice was with Nick the day of the trip to Hong Kong and believes that she agreed to help smuggle the heroin. Carn Hank deduces that Carn and Parks are the same person, since each name is an anagram of the other. He tracks down another girl who had been used as an unwitting drug mule by a man named Skip K. At their trial, they are sentenced to 33 years in prison.Īlice and Darlene are advised to seek out Hank Greene, an expatriate American attorney living in Thailand.
They are interrogated and Darlene signs a confession written in Thai, believing it to be a transcript of her statement confirming she is innocent. While boarding their flight at Don Mueang International Airport, the girls are detained by the Thai police and shocked to discover that one of their bags contains heroin, which they insist must have been planted by Nick. While there, they meet a captivating Australian man who calls himself Nick Parks unknown to them, Nick is a drug smuggler.ĭarlene is particularly smitten with Nick and persuades Alice to take him up on his offer to treat them both to a side trip to Hong Kong. Its title is taken from a Grateful Dead song written by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter from their 1970 album American Beauty.Īfter graduating from high school, best friends Alice Marano and Darlene Davis take a trip to Thailand, despite some reluctance from Darlene who tells her dad they are going to Hawaii. It deals with two American friends imprisoned in Thailand for alleged drug smuggling. Brokedown Palace is a 1999 American drama film directed by Jonathan Kaplan, and starring Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Pullman and Lim Kay Tong.
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