A large cast of gifted actress, including Glenn Close and Frances McDormand, is largely wasted in Beresford's honroable but failed effort to pay tribute to a group of disparate women held captive by the Japanese in WWII.
Paradise Road
Courage echoes forever.
1997 · 2h 2m · R
Drama, History, War
Directed by
Bruce Beresford
Overview
A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II.
Director and cast
- Bruce Beresford Director
- Glenn Close as Adrienne Pargiter
- Frances McDormand as Dr. Verstak
- Pauline Collins as Daisy 'Margaret' Drummond
- Cate Blanchett as Susan Macarthy
- Julianna Margulies as Topsy Merritt
- Jennifer Ehle as Rosemary Leighton-Jones
- Wendy Hughes as Mrs. Dickson
- Johanna ter Steege as Sister Wilhelminia
- Elizabeth Spriggs as Mrs. Roberts
- Pamela Rabe as Mrs. Tippler
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Even with its grueling pageant of torture and abuse at the hands of monstrously inhuman Japanese officers, Road never reaches the heart.
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