Another Day in Paradise

1998 "We live at the abyss."

Another Day in Paradise

6.5 | 1h41m | R | en | Drama

In the hope of a big score, two junkie couples team up to commit various drug robberies which go disastrously wrong, leading to dissent, violence, and murder.

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6.5 | 1h41m | R | en | Drama , Thriller , Crime | More Info

Released: December. 30,1998 | Released Producted By: Chinese Bookie Pictures , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

Synopsis

In the hope of a big score, two junkie couples team up to commit various drug robberies which go disastrously wrong, leading to dissent, violence, and murder.

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Cast

Melanie Griffith , James Woods , Vincent Kartheiser

Director

Erin Cochran

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Reviews

dragokin Another Day in Paradise wasn't nearly as easy to come across as Larry Clark's mainstream debut Kids (1995). True to his work, Larry follows a group of ordinary people under not so ordinary circumstances. It is neither extraordinarily good nor utterly bad movie about a group of characters living on the margins of society. And this is where my issues with this movie started.The characters we've been following were small time criminals. Not sure whether they were supposed to be "ordinary men" or "rebels" against the society or whatever, but i only saw a bunch of lazy individuals that have chosen life of crime of their own free will. We didn't see any harsh circumstances leading them to it. And after a certain age, i judge human drama not only by the ability to survive, but also by choices we make. And i rate higher decent earned small change by anonymous individuals than a fortune by thieves glorified in any way.

dwpollar 1st watched 12/26/2009 – 8 out of 10(Dir-Larry Clark): Extremely well executed drama about a couple of older drug-using thieves who take a younger couple under their wings as they survive in this rough un-forgiving chaotic world. The movie begins as the younger couple is introduced and the male character(played by Vincent Kartheiser) robs a community college's snack room of it's vending machine change and gets ferociously beat up by a security guard but then kills him. Uncle Mel(played by James Woods) then invites the kids to tag along with him and his girl and they graduate to bigger thefts with bigger consequences. The older couple(who can't have kids) kind of take on a tutoring and parenting role to the younger couple and they start developing a good friendship as well. It's obvious there are needs being fulfilled both ways in a companionship perspective as they both have many losses in their personal lives. Mistakes start being made after it's determined the younger girl is pregnant and the younger couple start evaluating whether this life is for them. This causes friction in the characters in this no-holds barred insane lifestyle movie where the characters just want to make good for themselves and this vulnerability brings the audience to like the characters. Melanie Griffith is un-expectedly excellent as the older woman and the overall acting and direction is very well done. You believe this story and that keeps you interested and involved until the end. The movie itself is not for the faint-at-heart but it is a definite un-heralded gem in the independent film-making world and should be viewed.

Ishkandar Raskolnick Another Day in Paradise is not the story of your life, it is not the story of my life. It is the story of Bonnie and Clyde at their early forties They are junkies by now and they can't have children so they adopt a young fresh couple and they give them a place in their life. They become family Things go wrong, of course... I loved the moment when this Clyde / Mel guy punches his Bonnie / Sid in the face for a reasonThis film is an excellent choice for a rainy Sunday evening at home

NHNeil What is it with people thinking that Larry Clark is actually talented? I saw two of his movies this week and this guy sucks. His movies go nowhere, have violence in them just for violence sake and if he made his movies any darker, you wouldn't be able to see what the hell was going on. Maybe that would be for the best.Why James Woods and Melanie Griffith would agree to be in this movie couldn't have been anything more than a venue to line their pockets.This movie wasn't as bad as Kids (1995) regarding the nudity that was needless but the violence made up for it. Anything I see with Clark's name on it at the video store will remain on the shelf as far as I'm concerned.