What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Calling this an opportunity or a distant desire to review this long lost series from the public eye and about a show that (one of my favorite, and revered actresses' of all time and highly adorable and practical) Nicole Kidman did before the world came to knew her through her films, this one definitely needs a view worth of your eyes.Before I go on with my review, I would like to tell that there many versions roaming in the market, while there are two main versions i.e., a set of 3 episodes and a set of them into 6 episodes (LATTER OF WHICH I GOT HOLD OF), so there's no difference in both of them, but I decided to let to know beforehand.The show revolves around Katrina Stanton as Nicole Kidman, a young innocent woman who is in for her long-estranged father but gets entrapped in the web of lies and brutality, when she becomes a pawn in a drug smuggling when one of the the smugglers encharms her, unbeknownst to her, she gets caught as a result at the Bangkok airport and then in the Bangkok Hilton prison (a fictional name to Hanoi Hilton) and how her struggles and the people (including her father in disguise) who help her, try to get her out of the mess. Now, my review, to this show that is looked upright to all the people who have grown watching this during the time it release (1989),You might find it dull, inferior to contemporary styles, inconsistent at places but wont disagree to me, that, it is a well made series looking at its time and how shows like this dealt such topics and how without turning mediocre, give a great deal for a time of 4 hours and more few minutes. Plus, you wouldn't ignore the musical score it plays behind and how awesome it is and how it haunts and enchants you even later and when you have watched the series.At last, do go and get a DVD and decide yourself that haven't I got you a great deal for the money with something different?

This couldn't be better - witness Denholm - Never Less - Than - Brilliant - Elliott at his usual best as a super top quality English boozer on a mission to get sober and sort his daughter's problems simultaneously - also Hugo Weaving as the best oily lawyer you'd want on your case and Nicole when she was an actress rather than a superstar or Mrs Tom Cruise or former Mrs Tom Cruise. When cute, asthmatic and incredibly wealthy Kat Stanton (Kidman) journeys to London on a genealogical quest she never imagines that the charming young man who beds her(Jerome Ehlers)will tuck several kilos of best quality heroin in the camera case he so kindly bought her. Needless to say it's discovered by an exceptionally clever airport dog with a penchant for class A drugs, and Ms Kidman is soon having a cosy chat with two rather grumpy policemen. This is where her troubles begin ....... she's in Thailand - where dope pushers face a mandatory death sentence - administered by a handsome young gent with a machine gun ! This film's got everything – including (like in Eastenders) a comedy ethnic postman. Purchase, watch, enjoy!

I saw this for the first time about 15 years ago. Didn't know Nicole Kidman from a hole in the ground but was mesmerized by her performance. There's a relatively recent movie called "Broken Down Palace" that is a very poor, VERY blatant rip-off of this mini-series. If you ever have a chance to catch Bangkok Hilton, grab it with both hands. Excellent! Excellent! Excellent! (Oh, and Nicole had not been surgically enhanced at that time, i.e. her lips and teeth and whatever else she may have had done had NOT been done at that time. Same thing for, "Dead Calm" - She was very young and totally unknown to North American Audiences. Dead Calm is another excellent movie, with Sam Neill and Billy Zane.)

I have seen this TV-serie on Video last night. I think was a special story, because a young girl, who is searching her father and drive around the half world for it, is not often. Then she came into jail, because her boyfriend was a heroin-dealer and put the stuff into her suitcase. Thats a great problem, because she was innocent and knows nothing about it. Really nothing!Nobody believe her. She came into jail - and in Bangkok, where she is, they want to make an execution with her. But she is not guilty. Her view on it was clear and she want to fight against it with all her possibilities. Her father, she don't knows it a long time - is her lawyer - and he protect her as much as he can. But the official trial at first-time is lost. How does it end??? I can't tell you in the moment, because I have don't see the end now.