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Apr 7, 1997 · Tale begins in Singapore’s Raffles Hotel on Feb. 10, 1942, when a military ball is interrupted by Japanese bombing. The women and children are put aboard a ship, which suffers a massive attack ...
Paradise Road. (1997) "Courage echoes forever." Movie. Audience Score. 65. R 2 hr 2 min Apr 11th, 1997 Drama, War, History. A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal ...
Paradise Road is a 1997 Australian American war movie directed by Bruce Beresford and was based on the diaries by Betty Jeffrey. It stars Pauline Collins, Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Ehle, Wendy Hughes, Elizabeth Spriggs, Pamela Rabe, Aden Young. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Drama: A group of women bands together to survive imprisonment in a WWII Japanese POW camp. Singapore falls to the Japanese in 1942 and the women and children are put on boats to be shipped to safety. Japanese fighters, however, sink one boat and those on board must swim for their lives. Landing on the Japanese controlled island of Sumatra, the ...
Nov 11, 2010 · Director Bruce Beresford directs with a strict outline, spoon feeding us each and every turn. The film lacks any surprise as a result, diminishing in emotio...
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Paradise Road. A group of foreign women, including an educated British musician, an Australian nurse and an American socialite, leave Singapore during World War II. When their boat is attacked, they wash up in Japanese-occupied Sumatra and end up in a POW camp. Conditions there are grim, with prisoners brutally punished for minor violations.
