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At Play in the Fields of the Lord is a 1991 epic adventure drama film directed by Héctor Babenco, adapted from the 1965 novel of the same name by American author Peter Matthiessen. The screenplay was written by Babenco and Jean-Claude Carrière, and stars Tom Berenger, John Lithgow, Daryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn, Tom Waits and Kathy Bates.
Dec 6, 1991 · A drama romance film based on a novel by Peter Matthiessen, about missionaries in the Amazon jungle. See cast, crew, reviews, trivia, awards, and more on IMDb.
- (3.6K)
- Drama, Romance
- Hector Babenco
- 1991-12-06
Dec 6, 1991 · A film adaptation of Peter Matthiessen's novel about the clash of cultures and beliefs in the Amazon rainforest. The film follows the stories of missionaries, mercenaries and Indians, and explores their conflicts and transformations.
In the early 1960s, missionary Martin Quarrier (Aidan Quinn) arrives in Brazil with his wife, Hazel (Kathy Bates), and their son, Billy (Niilo Kivirinta), to convert the Niaruna...
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- Hector Babenco
- R
- Tom Berenger
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- Héctor Babenco
- 189 min
- 4
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991) Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. 257 IMDb 6.8 3 h 6 min 1991. R. Drama · Romance.
Set in the 1970s, the story reflects on a group of Presbyterian missionaries and two American pilots/gun-runners in the Amazon, and how their intentions affect the world around them. Film focuses on the pilots' efforts to bomb a tribe of Indians off their land until one of the pilot's Indian herita.
