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At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
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6 December 1991 (USA)
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An adventure beyond the limits of civilization, faith and passion.
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Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians...
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Nominated for Golden Globe.
Another 1 win
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Highly underrated
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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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Rated R for language and sensuality.
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189 min
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To study for his role as a Christian missionary, Aidan Quinn went undercover with the Wycliffe Bible Translator group in Belem, Brazil, passing himself off as a born again Christian from the American Midwest.
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Hazel Quarrier:
Are we in Hell and just don't know it?
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Featured in The 69th Annual Academy Awards (1997) (TV)
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Halfway to Heaven
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Directed by Academy Award nominated Argentinian-Brazilian writer-director Hector Babenco and co-written by a longtime Luis Buñuel collaborator Jean Claude Carriere this is a breathtakingly beautiful, masterfully directed film, that features a story of two protestant missionary couples from a small town in U.S. that come to Amazonia with an intent to preach to the wild Indians of the area and an American pilot, wonderfully played by Tom Berenger, who feels atracted to the way of life of the Indians and joins and lives with them. Following the life of it´s protagonists in Amazonian forest, the film explores many subjects, such as: religious fanaticism and intolerance, ecology, destructive external influence on an unique Indian culture and, of cause, lust and greed. It´s slowly paced and has a duration of over 3 hours but it never became boring, at least for me. I was surprised to find that this film has an average rating of only 6.3 here on IMDB. It certainly deserves much more. 8/10