Reservation Road / Return To Paradise

RESERVATION ROAD

A powerful human story of anger, revenge, and great courage, this film takes you on an intense journey that follows two fathers as their families and lives converge after the events of one fateful night.

"It starts with devastation and closes, after a few reels of narrative dithering, with a climax of hairpin emotional turns and indisputable power." -

Lewis (Joaquin Phoenix), Sheriff (Vince Vaughn), and Tony (David Conrad) 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.

"a thriller that traps its characters in an exquisite dilemma involving life and death" -