Another Day in Paradise

MOVIE #1,130 • 🍿🍿🍿 • 08.30.23 This is such a strange follow-up to Kids, both tonally and stylistically. I wasn’t expecting it. The set-up is so weak/bland and if not for a solid James Woods performance (who is a rare actor that can go completely over the top and have it still work, a la Nic Cage), this would have been completely unwatchable. I also hated the soul-drenched soundtrack infesting most scenes. But it’s main issue is that it’s simply boring and I didn’t find any of the characters had any depth.

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Another Day in Paradise is a 1998 American crime drama film directed by Larry Clark, and starring James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Vincent Kartheiser and Natasha Gregson Wagner. Set in the 1970s, its plot follows a teenage drug addict who, along with his girlfriend, are taken in by a middle-aged couple. The pair persuade the teenagers to help them commit a series of increasingly complicated and dangerous drug robberies. Based on the 1997 novel of the same name by Eddie Little, Another Day in Paradise is Clark's second feature film; it won the Grand Prix award at the 1999 Festival du Film Policier de Cognac. It was released on December 30, 1998.