<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $10,115,013 </Td> </Tr> <P> Brokedown Palace is a 1999 American drama film directed by Jonathan Kaplan, and starring Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Pullman and Lim Kay Tong . It deals with two American friends imprisoned in Thailand for alleged drug smuggling . Its title is taken from a Grateful Dead song written by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter from their 1970 album American Beauty . </P> <P> Lifelong best friends Alice Marano and Darlene Davis take a trip after graduating from high school, giving their parents the impression that they're going to Hawaii . However, Alice talks Darlene into going to Thailand instead, after comparing the prices of both destinations . Darlene agrees, albeit with some reluctance . Once in Thailand, they meet a captivating Australian man who calls himself Nick Parks . Unknown to them, Nick Parks is a drug smuggler . Darlene is particularly smitten with Nick and convinces Alice to take Nick up on his offer to treat the two of them to what amounts to a day trip to Hong Kong . While boarding their flight at Don Mueang International Airport, the girls are seized by the police and shocked to discover that one of their bags contains heroin, which unknown to them, is planted by Nick himself . </P> <P> The two girls are interrogated by the Thai police and Darlene signs a confession written in Thai, which she foolishly thinks is her verbatim statement . At their trial, they beg for mercy and are given a lenient 33 - year sentence instead of the usual life sentence in prison . In prison, the girls are advised to seek out Henry Greene, aka "Yankee Hank", an expatriate American attorney living in Thailand . </P>

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