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At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)

R 12/06/1991 Drama, Romance 3h 9m
64%
User
Score
6.8/10
57%

An adventure beyond the limits of civilization, faith and passion.

Overview

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 while Martin is fascinated. Soon American pilot Lewis Moon joins the Indian tribe but is attracted by Leslie's young wife, Andy. Can the interaction of these characters and cultures, and the advancing bulldozers of civilization, avoid disaster?

Héctor Babenco

Director

Jean-Claude Carrière

Screenplay

Vincent Patrick

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Tom Berenger

Tom Berenger

Lewis Moon

John Lithgow

John Lithgow

Leslie Huben

Daryl Hannah

Daryl Hannah

Andy Huben

Aidan Quinn

Aidan Quinn

Martin Quarrier

Tom Waits

Tom Waits

Wolf

Kathy Bates

Kathy Bates

Hazel Quarrier

Stênio Garcia

Stênio Garcia

Boronai

Nelson Xavier

Nelson Xavier

Father Xantes

José Dumont

José Dumont

Commander Guzman

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Reviews

A review by tmdb28039023

Written on August 30, 2022

At Play in the Fields of the Lord is shot through with rich, complex irony (two characters, for instance, discuss having Indian blood, but while one is talking about having it in one’s veins, the other is talking about having it on one’s hands).

Its main characters, except one whose hypocrisy borders on cognitive dissonance, are torn between perception and reality – struggling in vain to have their thoughts and deeds, their words and actions, meet halfway.

Four of them form two couples that are in and of themselves counterintuitive; after all, Aidan Quinn and Daryl Hannah would make more sense than John Lithgow and Hannah, or Quinn and Kathy Bates. The only pairing that seems to belong together is that of Tom Berenger and Tom Waits.

Perhaps the most conflicted of them all is...

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