Paradise Road
1997
**
Director: Bruce Beresford
Cast: Glenn Close, Pauline Collins, Cate Blanchett, Frances McDormand
A true story about a group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women who are sent to a Japanese Pow camp where they take up choral singing to keep up the spirits. Some of them die and some of them survive, but why this story was deemed worthy of a film remains unanswered. Based on Betty Jeffrey's book White Coolies.
