At Play in the Fields of the Lord

At Play in the Fields of the Lord is a 1991 adventure drama film directed by Hctor Babenco, adapted from the 1965 novel of the same name by American author Peter Matthiessen. The screenplay was written by Babenco and JeanClaude Carrire, and stars Tom Berenger, John Lithgow, Daryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn, Tom Waits and Kathy Bates.

A pair of explorers, Lewis Moon and Wolf, become stranded in Me de Deus Portuguese Mother of God, an outpost in the deep Brazilian Amazon River basin, after their plane runs out of fuel.The local police commander wants the Niaruna tribe, living upriver, to move their village so they wont be killed by gold miners moving into the area and cause trouble for him with the provincial government. The commander cuts a deal with Moon if he and his fellow mercenary would bomb the Niaruna village from the air and drive them away, they will be given enough gasoline for their airplane to be allowed to leave. ........

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