Remake of the French movie Force majeure (1989).
Three American youths spend vacation in an Asian country. Two of them return to America, and after two years are looked up by a lawyer who says the third of them was arrested for drug trafficking due to a blunder one of the other two committed; what's more, he was now facing a death sentence unless at least one of them returns to that Asian country and shares the guilt of drug possession.
Quite a powerful moral equation. The use of the name of a real country for this fictional work is problematic, though. Not only that country may be (and is, according to some sources) very different than the fictional one, but the fictional one comes off as a bit nonsensical, displaying on the one hand an extremely abundant offer of easy illegal drug on the streets and on the other an unsurpassed severity in its drug laws. But the film is otherwise an engaging study of individuals facing hard choices.
Rating: 59 (this is my second viewing, and the rating does not change)
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