Is Paradise Road based on a true story?

Based on a true story, “Paradise Road” begins in Singapore on a February night in 1942. The colony’s British residents are taking their ease at a fancy dress ball at the legendary Raffles Hotel, feeling smug and making derogatory comments about the capabilities of the Japanese armed forces.

Where was Paradise Road filmed?

Production took place in Marrickville (Sydney), Singapore, Port Douglas and Penang.

Who dies in Paradise Road?

Female Deaths

• Cate Blanchett.
• Pauline Chan.
• Jennifer Ehle.
• Kristine McAlister.
• Lia Scallon.
• Elizabeth Spriggs.

What is the movie Paradise Road about?

A group of foreign women — including an educated British musician (Glenn Close), an Australian nurse (Cate Blanchett) and an American socialite (Julianna Margulies) — leave Singapore during World War II. When their boat is attacked, they wash up in Japanese-occupied Sumatra and end up in a POW camp. Conditions there are grim, with prisoners brutally punished for minor violations. But the captives soon decide to form a singing group that just may lift these very different women out of misery.Paradise Road / Film synopsis

Where is Paradise Road in American Graffiti?

Petaluma
The northern California town of Petaluma was Graffiti’s primary filming location, and Frates Road on its eastern side played the mythical “Paradise Road.” Fittingly, the scene came at the end of the shooting schedule in July 1972, after nearly a month of tiring night shoots.

What year is Paradise Road set in?

1942
(Earlier, the screenplay provides racist anti-Japanese slurs at the Singapore party, to show that the British, too, had their flaws; the film is set in 1942 but its attitudes are circa 1997.)

Why is Paradise Road Rated R?

Conditions are brutal in the tropical climate, food is scarce, living quarters are filthy, and the camp commandant (Sab Shimono) supervises cruel punishments, including one where a woman must kneel for hours in the hot sun, or fall over onto sharp spikes.