The Emerald Forest

About The Emerald Forest

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.

The Emerald Forest is a 1985 action adventure film directed by John Boorman. It runs 114 minutes and was released in June 1985.

Its themes are jungle, child kidnapping, missing child, and amazon rainforest. The film began as real events.

Powers Boothe stars as Bill Markham, Charley Boorman as Tomme, Meg Foster as Jean Markham, and Estee Chandler as Heather. The screenplay is by Rospo Pallenberg. Produced by Embassy Pictures. In the United States it streams on ScreenPix Amazon Channel and ScreenPix Apple TV channel.

Jungle, Fire on the Amazon, and The Lost City of Z make useful companions to The Emerald Forest, all filed under rainforest. TMDB voters put it at 6.6 out of 10 across 287 votes and it carries a R rating.