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Released
1999 · FILM

Brokedown Palace

Two recent grads on a carefree Southeast Asian adventure must fight for their freedom when a night out with a charming stranger lands them behind bars on drug‑smuggling charges.

“Their graduation present was a trip to paradise, but they never thought they would land in hell.”

Directed by
Jonathan Kaplan
Written by
Adam Fields, David Arata
Runtime
100 min
DramaMysteryThriller
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Alice and Darlene, best friends, travel to Thailand after graduating high school. There, they meet an Australian man who introduces himself as Nick Parks. Darlene becomes especially interested in Nick and persuades Alice to accept his offer to take them on a day trip to Hong Kong. At the airport, the two women are arrested by the police, who discover that one of their bags contains heroin.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Curtiss ClaytonShot by Newton Thomas SigelScored by David NewmanDesigned by James William Newport

Box Office

1999 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.4× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$10.1M

Budget$25.0M
Worldwide gross$10.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $3.9M — 38% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $6.0M — 60% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,740 theaters

Also known as

  • Brokedown Palace - Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletztde
  • Bangkok, aller simplefr
  • Bangkok, senza ritornoit

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