The read
A Balasaur Score of 72 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.9/10, Rotten Tomatoes 84%. Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 90% of the 746 1980s action movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do.
281 audience votes
Key crew
- John BoormanDirector
- Rospo PallenbergScreenplay
- Brian GascoigneOriginal Music Composer
- Junior HomrichOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Powers BootheBill Markham
- Charley BoormanTomme
- Meg FosterJean Markham
- Estee ChandlerHeather
- Dira PaesKachiri
- Eduardo CondeUwe Werner
- Ariel CoelhoPadre Leduc
- Peter MarinkerPerreira
- Mario BorgesCosta
- Yara VaneauYoung Heather
- William RodriguezYoung Tommy
- Átila IórioTrader
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