Movie Information
Overall Rank: 58338
Average Rating: 2/4
# of Ratings: 1
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/2001
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rolf de Heer
Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Timothy Spall, Hugo Weaving, Cathy Tyson, Victor Bottenbley, Fede Celada
Plot: In El Idilio, buried deep in the jungle on the bank of a small Amazon tributary, lives 60 year old Antonio Bolivar. Antonio has lived most of his life in the jungle and knows it intimately. A recluse, he has discovered a quiet passion for romantic tales, which he reads with great appetite. The visiting Dentist, a swaggering lothario with questionable medical skills, becomes Antonio's confidant, procuring romantic novels.
But all is not tranquil in this remote, uncivilized corner of the world. Outsiders have intruded, killing a jaguar's cubs and upsetting the fragile balance between man and nature. Now, seeking her revenge, the enraged mother jaguar begins killing humans, apparently at random. And so begins a trek, an adventure, a dangerous duel. The hunt becomes a prism through which Antonio reconciles his past and stares into the face of his own fear.
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