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At Play in the Fields of the Lord

Cast

Tom Berenger, John Lithgow, Daryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn View All


Crew

Jean-Claude Carrière (Screenplay), Héctor Babenco (Screenplay), Héctor Babenco (Director), Vincent Patrick (Screenplay) View All

Release: Dec. 6th, 1991
Runtime: 3 hours, 9 minutes
Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all. They are sent by the pompous Leslie Huben, who runs the missionary effort in the area but who seems more concerned about competing with his Catholic 'rivals' than in the Indians themselves. Hazel is terrified of the Indians...
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Takoma11
This part of the film sticks out like a sore thumb because its in such contrast to the way that the indigenous women have been filmed and because a woman going swimming alone, naked, knowing that women in this exact area were raped and killed and there are currently hostile feelings on the part of t....
Torgo
It's in Native American "convert" Lewis Moon's conversation with missionary Martin Quarrier: "why do you want to change them.
PHOENIX74
It's not a case of abject failure - the movie is fine - it's just that a film of this size and scope obviously aims at being the big Best Picture Oscar winner at the end of the year, and At Play in the Fields of the Lord ended up facing the ignominy of not recieving a single nomination.


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