Trapped in Paradise

1994

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Romance

17
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 42% · 20 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 42% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.9/10 10 17714 17.7K

christmas comedy small town pennsylvania, usa holiday bank robbery ex-con

Plot summary

Residents of a friendly Pennsylvania town foil three brothers' plan to rob a bank on Christmas Eve.

Director

George Gallo Photo
George Gallo

Top cast

Nicolas Cage Photo
Nicolas Cage as Bill Firpo
John Ashton Photo
John Ashton as Ed Dawson
Mädchen Amick Photo
Mädchen Amick as Sarah Collins
Paul Lazar Photo
Paul Lazar as Deputy Timmy Burnell
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1022.14 MB
1280*538
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 51 min
Seeds 2
2.05 GB
1904*800
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 51 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by tedg

Caged

What we have here is an experiment in no writing, no directing, just gathering some actors together and turning them loose. Many of these have been funny in skits, and each was encouraged to develop their own comic persona. But since these are not very clever comics, we have copies of Harpo, Jonathon Winters, Laurel and Hardy, Lucy and so on. There's nothing original or entertaining here except to watch how strong is the magnetism of the past masters.Watching Cage flounder is also interesting since there are some who celebrate his talent. I'm coming more and more to appreciate how many different types of actors there are and how widely they differ. Cage as a person always sits nervously in his character. This is no problem if he is cast as a person who sits nervously in himself, and of course this is how he is typed. Sometimes it works, for instance with DePalma's experimental `Snake Eyes,' the disembodied EMT of `Bring out the Dead,' and the pretty sensitive `Raising Arizona.' But when it fails, it fails spectacularly with Cage staring goofily as in that lottery movie, or with shouting as here. Spectacular.
Reviewed by MellowStar176 7 / 10

A Great Movie about Small Town America at Christmas Time

I absolutely adore this movie. This movie was not made to dazzle people or make them stand back and go "wow that was an awesome scene." Trapped in Paradise is about the healing powers of a small town at Christmas. If you've ever live in a small town, or even visited one, you could relate to this movie. To me, this is more of a feel good comedy than anything. It might not hit a lot of top ten lists because its not flashy and it doesn't have a huge trailer, but its a good movie to sit down and laugh to and make you feel good about the human race once again. Nicholas Cage, John Lovitt, and Dana Carvey's characters are believable, even if they are not dynamic. I highly recommend this movie for anyone, from the young to the young at heart.
Reviewed by bobc-5 5 / 10

Was anybody really trying?

This movie isn't a total waste of time. The overall idea is appealing and actually quite well executed, but in the specifics it becomes almost unbearable unimaginative. Nicolas Cage and Jon Lovitz do their characters well, even if very predictably, but they do them as if they weren't even filming the scenes together. There is no rapport whatsoever, and the poor selection of shots just makes it worse. The characterization of Paradise, the police, and just about everyone else suffers the same fate. Dana Carvey singlehandedly saves several scenes, yet he spends most of the movie doing an annoying and completely useless imitation of Mickey Rourke playing the town idiot. With the exception of a few of the minor players (particularly Florence Stanley as Ma Firpo), one has to wonder if anybody in this movie, from director to cast to crew, was actually making any significant effort or just trying to get something into the theaters in time for Christmas.
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