--- product_id: 4644247 title: "The Emerald Forest" brand: "powers boothemeg fosterjohn boorman" price: "NZ$99" currency: NZD in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 url: https://www.desertcart.nz/products/4644247-the-emerald-forest store_origin: NZ region: New Zealand --- # The Emerald Forest **Brand:** powers boothemeg fosterjohn boorman **Price:** NZ$99 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Emerald Forest by powers boothemeg fosterjohn boorman - **How much does it cost?** NZ$99 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.nz](https://www.desertcart.nz/products/4644247-the-emerald-forest) ## Best For - powers boothemeg fosterjohn boorman enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted powers boothemeg fosterjohn boorman brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Product Description From the director of Hope & Glory comes a "wildly ambitious parable [that] transports us to a singularly imaginative realm" (Boxoffice). The Emerald Forest is "an exotic and erotic daymare replete with one lushly enrapturing scene after another" (Daily News)! For ten years, engineer Bill Markham (Powers Boothe) 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 tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventure truly begins. For his son (Charley Boorman) 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. .com John Boorman's 1985 South American epic never quite gets all of its gears working simultaneously, but it remains an often startling work with an extraordinary performance by the director's own son, Charley Boorman. Powers Boothe plays an American engineer working on a dam project in Brazil. When his young son is seemingly absorbed one day into the dense perils and beauty of the rain forest, Boothe's character goes on a protracted, 10-year search for him. In the interim, Boorman puts his full storytelling powers to work by characteristically exploring the arcane rhythms and dangers of an indigenous world hidden from ordinary view. Specifically, Boorman leads us into the life of a forest tribe who have assimilated the missing child and who will ultimately send him back with the opposite of his father's pro-development sensibility. The movie is gorgeous to behold, and it's great fun watching Boorman find ever-novel ways of making the same film again and again. But the environmental message and the emotion of the core relationship get in each other's way a bit, preventing the film from uniting on every front. Still, this is a must for Boorman fans. --Tom Keogh ## Product Details - **Genre:** Action & Adventure - **Format:** Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen - **Contributor:** Ariel Coelho, Charley Boorman, Dira Paes, Eduardo Conde, Estee Chandler, John Boorman, Mario Borges, Meg Foster, Peter Marinker, Powers Boothe, Rospo Pallenberg, William Rodriguez, Yara Vaneau, tila Irio - **Language:** English - **Runtime:** 1 hour and 54 minutes ## Images ![The Emerald Forest - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71nS0Acqe7L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Emerald Forest is a great story. *by M***N on June 28, 2025* Fantastic story with amazing acting & cinematography! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Awkward Masterpiece of Deep Ecology *by E***S on October 19, 2009* To reveal to our "civilized" world our human roots in nature is an ambitious goal for any film. To do so using the story of hidden tribes in the Amazon, with cultures incomprehensible to "modern" humans, is remarkably ambitious. This film brings a deep ecology sensibility that is desperately needed - but just as desperately avoided in our complacent, self-loathing, materialistic culture."The Emerald Forest" is awkward at times. I'm not sure of the order in which the scenes were shot, but the director manages to lead us in the right direction. The acting appears to evolve(or is it our awareness that evolves?), as the viewer is lured into the contracting jungle culture of these tribes, and away from the dead world of constant construction, assimilation and expansion. What is most amazing, in a way, is the gentleness with which Boorman treats contemporary culture. This is the key to providing his ecological message the wings of flight that make our jaws drop in the midst of breattaking scenery and well-presented tribal culture and ritual.Boorman lets the subject of his preaching be slowly revealed through the story and characters rather than bludgeoning us with immensely evil, calculating villains. As it is in reality, the insanity lies in our collective indifference, our willingness to accept a pathetic world of materialism and technology in the hopes that our connection with each other, our bodies and nature will not be missed. Incremental trade-offs leading to "higher standards of living" have left us dispossessed of our souls, seeking solace in hedonism and "pie in the sky" religions that cultivate the greed and abomination they purport so piously to eliminate.Yet, in this process, key elements of the movie involve psychedelic drugs and nudity, albeit natural and normal in the cultures Boorman portrays. Can we be lured back into the jungle with titillation? Obviously, the life is harsh and dangers abound. Yet, this film isn't about a bunch of teenagers getting high. It is about an adult ritual of expanded consciousness and vision that is meant not to narrow consciousness as alcohol use does, but to expand it, to bring perspective and connection in the quest of vision and leadership.Likewise, this film portrays nudity in the context of normal life and does not eroticize it. It is refreshingly ironic that, when liberated from enforced prostitution in a heavily armed brothel, the women instinctively remove the scanty clothing and adornments that have been used to make them "attractive." If clothing is a metaphor, what else does our culture uses to conceal our humanity? If hallucinogens are a metaphor, what else does our culture use to deaden our sensibilities so that we seek sexual conquest and materialistic acquisition instead of trusting, healthy relationships with the people and world around us?Boorman's "The Emerald Forest" is an odd, but remarkable achievement that has stood the test of time quite well thus far. In 2009, this 1985 film seems even more wise than when it was created. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Movies *by S*** on February 6, 2025* A good movie to watch to protect your children at all times. 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