At Play in the Fields of the Lord
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| Directed by | Héctor Babenco |
| Produced by | Saul Zaentz |
| Screenplay by | Hector Babenco Jean-Claude Carrière Vincent Patrick |
| Based on | the novel At Play in the Fields of the Lord by Peter Matthiessen |
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| Music by | Zbigniew Preisner |
| Cinematography | Lauro Escorel |
| Edited by |
William M. Anderson Armen Minasian |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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189 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $36,000,000 |
| Box office | $1,342,903 (USA) |
At Play in the Fields of the Lord is a 1991 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.
Director and producer James Cameron stated that At Play in the Fields of the Lord was used as a reference for the 2009 blockbuster film Avatar.
A pair of explorers, Lewis Moon and Wolf, become stranded in Mãe 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 won't 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.
Born-again Christian evangelist (and missionary) Martin Quarrier and his wife Hazel arrive with their son Billy, here to spread the Christian gospel to the primitive Niaruna indigenous natives. They arrive in Mãe de Deus to meet fellow missionaries Leslie and Andy Huben, who live with a Niaruna helper. In town, they meet a Catholic priest who wants to re-establish a mission to the Niarunas, as the former missionary was killed by them.
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