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At Play in the Fields of the Lord
(1991)
Genre(s):
Culture Clash, Jungle Stories, Missionaries, South America
Cast:
Tom Berenger, Aidan Quinn, Kathy Bates, John Lithgow, Daryl Hannah, Tom Waits, Stenio Garcia, Nelson Xavier, Jose Dumont, Niilo Kivirinta; DIRECTED BY: Hector Babenco; WRITTEN BY: Hector Babenco, Jean-Claude Carriere; MUSIC BY: Zbigniew Preisner. PRODUCER: Saul Zaentz Company.
Review:
A thoughtful epic that never quite lives up to its own self-importance--or length. Two yankee missionary couples try to evangelize a fearsome tribe of Brazilian rain-forest dwellers. One of the Christian families suffers a crisis of faith that's well-acted but not as powerful as a co-plot regarding a modern American Indian (Berenger) who joins the jungle natives with calamitous results. Based on the novel by Peter Matthiessen.
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