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Return to Paradise (1998) [R]

Release Date:
August 10, 1998

Original Title:
Return to Paradise

Alternate Titles:
Pela vida de um amigo

Genres:
Drama | Romance | Thriller

Production Companies:
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Propaganda Films
Tetragram

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 12  HU: 12  US: R 

Runtime: 109

Give up three years of their lives or give up the life of their friend. They have eight days to decide.

Overview from TheMovieDB

Lewis, Sheriff and Tony are three friends vacationing in Malaysia. Sheriff and Tony eventually leave to pursue careers in New York, but Lewis stays behind to work with orangutans. Two years later, Sheriff and Tony learn that, because of their past actions, Lewis has been arrested for drug possession. With Lewis facing a death sentence, the friends are left with a difficult decision: return to Malaysia and split Lewis' sentence, or let him die.

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ADR Editor:
Jane McCulley

Art Department Coordinator:
Natalie N. Dorset

Art Direction:
Dennis Bradford

Assistant Art Director:
Miguel López-Castillo

Assistant Editor:
Michelle Botticelli

Assistant Production Manager:
Lucille Smith

Assistant Set Dresser:
Carol Silverman

Boom Operator:
Jeanne Gilliland

Casting:
Kathleen Chopin

Co-Producer:
Michael E. Steele
Charles Wang

Construction Coordinator:
Raymond M. Samitz

Construction Foreman:
Malcolm Reid

Costume Design:
Juliet Polcsa

Director:
Joseph Ruben

Director of Photography:
Reynaldo Villalobos

Editor:
Craig McKay
Andrew Mondshein

Executive Producer:
David Arnold
Ezra Swerdlow

First Assistant Director:
Michael E. Steele

First Assistant Editor:
Jennifer Davidoff Cook

First Assistant Sound Editor:
Barbara Parks

Foley Editor:
Pam DeMetruis-Thomas

Gaffer:
Jonathan Lumley

Key Hair Stylist:
Francesca Paris

Key Makeup Artist:
Kathryn Bihr

Location Manager:
Lyn Pinezich

Music Editor:
Thomas S. Drescher

Novel:
Pierre Jolivet

Original Music Composer:
Mark Mancina

Post Production Supervisor:
Linda Shamest

Producer:
Alain Bernheim
Steve Golin

Production Design:
Bill Groom

Production Supervisor:
Joel Hatch

Property Master:
Robert Griffon Jr.

Rigging Gaffer:
Jack Coffen

Screenplay:
Wesley Strick
Bruce Robinson

Script Supervisor:
Corey B. Yugler

Second Assistant Director:
Julie A. Bloom

Second Unit Director:
Jack Gill

Set Decoration:
Betsy Klompus

Sound Mixer:
William Sarokin

Still Photographer:
Barry Wetcher

Storyboard Designer:
Karl Shefelman

Stunt Coordinator:
Peter Bucossi
Jack Gill

Stunt Double:
Jimmy N. Roberts
Joe Bucaro III

Supervising Sound Editor:
Stan Bochner

Unit Production Manager:
Ezra Swerdlow

Unit Publicist:
Carrie Gerlach

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