Return to Paradise

Return to Paradise is a 1998 American drama-thriller film directed by Joseph Ruben, written by Wesley Strick and Bruce Robinson, and starring Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche and Joaquin Phoenix. Return to Paradise is a remake of the 1989 French film Force majeure. The film had its premiere on August 10, 1998, and was released to theaters on August 14, 1998. It is the first film on-screen collaboration between Vaughn and Heche, the second film being Psycho, which was released in the same year. Plot Three friends, Lewis McBride, Sheriff and Tony, are seen vacationing in a Malaysian paradise. Their adventures include being almost run over by a car while riding a bicycle, and being pressured into buying some rhinoceros horn from Malaysian locals. They also purchase a large bag of hash from a drug dealer. The three men wind up at their beachfront house on the ocean pondering their future in the island paradise. Tony and Sheriff decide to return to NYC, while Lewis, being a "greenie", wishes to travel to Borneo to save endangered orangutans. On the last day, they toss the remaining hash in the garbage. As time passes in NYC, Sheriff is working as a limo driver and Tony as an architect.