The Emerald Forest

Name: The Emerald Forest
Director: John Boorman
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Released: 1985-06-22
Duration: 1 h 54 min
Rating: 6.636
Cast: Powers Boothe, Charley Boorman, Meg Foster, Estee Chandler, Dira Paes

Directed by John Boorman

Action

Adventure

Drama

19851h 54m6.6

Overview

For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventure truly begins. For his son is now a grown tribesman who moves skillfully through this beautiful-but-dangerous terrain, fearful only of those who would exploit it. And as Bill attempts to "rescue" him from the savagery of the untamed jungle, Tommy challenges Bill's idea of true civilization and his notions about who needs rescuing.