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| ACTORS: | Powers Boothe, Meg Foster |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | John Boorman |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 03 July, 1985 |
| MANUFACTURER: | MGM/UA Video |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Widescreen, Closed-captioned |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-action/Adventure |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 027616858474 |
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Customer Reviews of The Emerald Forest
ENTERTAINMENT'S EMERALD A dam-builder is in the rain forest one day with his family, showing off his stuff. Suddenly his young son takes off to the woods and is never seen again. For the next few years the father leads a double life. Half the time he's building this dam, while the other half he's picking up his machine gun and running into the jungle to find his son. Pretty interesting life and a pretty interesting idea. And it's based on a true story. Some of the natives are truly weird, trying to put elongated bones into a machine gun that they find. There's a neat scene where they learn about either barbed wire or electricity. Another part I liked was where the native scales a small multi-story building with nothing but his bare hands and feet. The climax is really ironic. Very rarely do I see a movie where I watch it once and immediately want to see it again. This is one of those movies. I haven't seen it in a while, but my mind wanders back to it quite a lot. Definitely worth buying.
Great movie, so-so DVD
Haven't seen this movie for at least 15 years, now it is out on DVD. It is a great movie, about an engineer (Powers Boothe) who was building a dam in Amazon rain forest. His son was kidnapped by lost tribe of the amazon. He searched endlessly for his missing son for 10 years. It is based on true story. The acting is very good and the location is beautiful. Too bad the DVD can't displayed it properly as the color is a bit pale and dark. The sound is Dolby 2.0 only and a bit let down, especially after the DVD opens with the high power MGM logo presented in Dolby 5.1 and when it plays the film, you can immediately feel the drop in the sound quality. But overall it is a very entertaining DVD that worth considering.
"Do you know my people?"
John Boorman's "The Emerald Forest" marks the director's return to nature a decade after "Deliverance" (1972). Once again, Boorman so ably captures the essence of the outdoors that it almost becomes a tangible supporting character. Nature in the cinematic world of Boorman is an entity to be revered and feared if you know what is good for you.
Bill Markham (Powers Boothe) is an American engineer who is in Brazil to help oversee the construction of a dam. While inspecting the construction site, tragedy strikes when his young son, Tommy (William Rodriguez) disappears. Haunted by his loss, Markham returns to the rainforest every year for ten years in search of his lost son. He eventually finds the adult Tommy (Charley Boorman) - now know as Tomme - living with the native "Invisible People." As Markham tries to re-establish his relationship with his son, he slowly learns of the devastating ecological and cultural consequences his industrial world has had upon the area.
"The Emerald Forest" sometimes comes across as too heavy-handed in its critique of modern society's threat towards the natural world. Yet, despite its labored message, the film's central story of Markham's searching for his son is involving on an emotional and dramatic level. Furthermore, the scenes with the natives are an insightful venture into an unfamiliar way of life that is as compelling as it is informative. Chalk up "The Emerald Forest" as another little nugget from the Eighties.