Elias Monteiro Da Silva, Francisco Tsiren Tsere Rereme, José Wilker
An eccentric scientist working for a large drug company is working on a research project in the Amazon jungle. He sends for a research assistant and a gas chromatograph because he's close to a cure fo...( read more
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DVD Release Date: August 17, 1999
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July 6, 2009Sean Connery is a doctor with a ponytail in the jungle. He accidently discovers a cure for cancer, but doesn't know how he did it. Besides some nice rainforest visuals, Connery's ponytail is the best part of the film.
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September 6, 2008An enjoyable drama as a scientist is close to discovering a cure for cancer but bulldozers are closing in on the area of forest where the plants with the possible cure are located.
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August 19, 2007Underrated film about finding a cure for cancer in the Amazon. Sean Connery is great, as usual.
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August 13, 2007This was really quite clever, the search for the cure for cancer, so many things not discovered in the Amazon.
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June 8, 2009I remember being annoyed after watching this movie because it did make you think that a cure for cancer could be in the jungles or wherever and humans are destroying all these areas where the cure may be. so the film did affect me and Sean Connery was good in his role.
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