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At Play in the Fields of the Lord
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)

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User Rating: 6.4/10 (1,484 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Hector Babenco
Writers:
Hector Babenco (writer)
Jean-Claude Carrière (writer)
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Release Date:
6 December 1991 (USA) more view trailer
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
An adventure beyond the limits of civilization, faith and passion.
Plot:
Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 1 win more
User Comments:
A challenging adaptation of a work by a great American writer more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

Tom Berenger ... Lewis Moon

John Lithgow ... Leslie Huben

Daryl Hannah ... Andy Huben

Aidan Quinn ... Martin Quarrier

Tom Waits ... Wolf

Kathy Bates ... Hazel Quarrier
Stênio Garcia ... Boronai
Nelson Xavier ... Father Xantes
José Dumont ... Commandante Guzman
Niilo Kivirinta ... Billy Quarrier
S. Yriwana Karaja ... Aeore
Jose Renato Lana ... Uyuyu
Ruy Polanah ... Kori
Carlos Xavante ... Tukanu
Ione Machado ... Pindi
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Additional Details

Runtime:
189 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby SR
Filming Locations:
Belém, Pará, Brazil more
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Trivia:
Producer Saul Zaentz first tried to make this film in 1965, only to find that MGM owned the rights. He kept trying to buy them every time there was an administrative change at MGM up until 1989 when new studio heads Jay Kanter and Alan Ladd Jr decided that MGM would not be making the film. Zaentz still had to pay $1.4 million for the rights. more
Quotes:
Leslie Huben: Moon, you're under the influence of a dangerous drug, we need to know where you are.
Lewis Moon: I'm at play... in the fields of the Lord. At play... in the fields... of the Lord...
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Movie Connections:
Featured in The 69th Annual Academy Awards (1997) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Just an Echo in the Valley more

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9 out of 11 people found the following comment useful:-
A challenging adaptation of a work by a great American writer, 29 January 2000
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Author: Aldanoli from Ukiah, California

A late adaptation of author-naturalist Peter Mathiessen's 1965 novel about missionaries in South America (Aidan Quinn and John Lithgow), their wives (Kathy Bates and Darryl Hannah, respectively) and their chance encounter with an American Indian (Tom Berenger) who is trying to exorcise the ghosts of his life on the reservation by joining a stone age tribe that the missionaries are trying to convert. This is a remarkable cast for a movie with such intense, personal themes, and each of the actors delivers an excellent performance. Berenger was perhaps an odd choice to play an American Indian, but he does the best that he can with the role.

Mathiessen is one of the great writers of the late twentieth century--an American answer to Graham Greene or Joseph Conrad, perhaps--whose literary canvas is literally almost the entire world. This is an appropriately challenging and demanding interpretation of his always challenging and demanding (though under-appreciated) work.

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