Bangkok Hilton

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Sweden released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Mono ), Danish ( Subtitles ), Finnish ( Subtitles ), Norwegian ( Subtitles ), Swedish ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: In one of her first adult starring roles, Nicole Kidman played the lead in the three-part Australian miniseries Bangkok Hilton. Searching for her long-estranged father at Bangkok airport, Katrina "Kat" Stanton unwittingly becomes a "mule" for drug-smuggler Arkie Ragan (Jerome Ehlers). Captured by the authorities, Kat is charged with smuggling and locked away in a horrible prison known as the Bangkok Hilton. Also in the cast were Denholm Elliot(Hal Stanton) and such familiar Australian film and TV regulars as Norman Kaye, Joy Smithers, and Gerda Nicholson. After its original ABC network run from November 5-7, 1989, Bangkok Hilton was rebroadcast in six one-hour segments, rather than its original three two-hour episodes. As for Nicole Kidman, she earned an AFI award (the Australian equivalent of the Emmy) for her brilliant and harrowing performance.
SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Australian Film Institute,

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Review by Michael Kerjman, 2010-04-18

"Bangkok Hilton" is a story of how money and family links helped an innocent young woman got away from a death penalty in Thailand for being unknowingly used as a mull by an attractive seducer-professional drug-trafficker, and revenge over his crimes following.

Regrettably, not much changed since this warning work appeared in Australia ages ago.

Review by James R. Bohland, 2008-09-17

Though dated this is an excellent. Even though this is her first major film, you can see why Nicole Kidman became a star.