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Paradise Road

Courage echoes forever.

1997 · 2h 2m · R Drama, History, War
Directed by Bruce Beresford

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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.

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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.

Emanuel Levy, Variety
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Even with its grueling pageant of torture and abuse at the hands of monstrously inhuman Japanese officers, Road never reaches the heart.

Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today

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