The Story:
Based on true events and follows a group of troubled teens sent to a boot camp facility on the tropical island of Fiji. Trapped on an island with no rules, no walls and no way out, the teens endure unimaginable physical and emotional abuse that leaves them brainwashed, isolated and close to death.
Sophie Bauer (Mila Kunis) is a rebellious young woman, her father has passed away and her mother has remarried, she's none too keen on her step-father (Serge Houde) at all. In fact, you could say that Sophie goes out of her way to make his life difficult, and once he decides that he's had enough of her attitude, she's shipped off to a correctional facility in Fiji.
Dubbed the ASAP - Advanced Serenity Achievement Program - this social rehabilitation curriculum for troubled teens is lead by Norman Hail (Peter Stormare), a supposed doctor with some rather serious stability issues of his own.
Things seem off from the moment Sophia arrives on the island to start her rehabilitation. While it's all well and good for the kids to undergo therapy and even some tough love scenarios, the program is run more like a prison camp than an actual psychiatric program.
They take away all of the kids' jewelry, and chain them to massive cement blocks on the beach where they leave them overnight to 'teach them how to be strong and follow the rules.' As Sophia and the other kids, lead by a her boyfriend Ben (Gregory Smith), who has snuck into the camp posing as a drug addict, resist and revolt Hail's tactics become increasingly more brazen and bizarre to the point where the kids are basically subjected to torture.
Sophia and Ben try to escape on their own but they're recaptured and Hail and his right hand man/thug Logan (Tygh Runyan) turn up the heat to teach them a lesson, and all the while some of the kids he's in charge of are turning up dead.
Starring:
Mila Kunis, Peter Stormare, Gregory Smith, Regine Nehy, Alejandro Rae, Tygh Runyan.
Directed By:
Christian Duguay
Release:
2007
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