The Lost City of Z (PG-13)

Quicklook Rating★★½
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synopsis

The film tells the incredible true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the 20th century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region. Despite being ridiculed by the scientific establishment who regard indigenous populations as "savages," the determined Fawcett - supported by his devoted wife, son and aide-de-camp - returns time and again to his beloved jungle in an attempt to prove his case, culminating in his mysterious disappearance in 1925.

MovieGoer Review

The Lost City of Z is an adaptation of David Grann's non-fiction book of the same name. Expanded from the author's 2005 New Yorker article, the 2009 hardcover became a New York Times bestseller and garnered over a half-dozen major awards an... MORE

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synopsis

The film tells the incredible true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the 20th century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region. Despite being ridiculed by the scientific establishment who regard indigenous populations as "savages," the determined Fawcett - supported by his devoted wife, son and aide-de-camp - returns time and again to his beloved jungle in an attempt to prove his case, culminating in his mysterious disappearance in 1925.

MovieGoer Review

The Lost City of Z is an adaptation of David Grann's non-fiction book of the same name. Expanded from the author's 2005 New Yorker article, the 2009 hardcover became a New York Times bestseller and garnered over a half-dozen major awards an... MORE