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Rated: PG-13; Genres: Action/Adventure, Romance; With: Lorraine Bracco and Sean Connery
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By Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

Dr. Robert Campbell (Sean Connery) has spent six lonely years in the Amazon rain forest, where he has discovered a holistic cure for cancer. Now, the rare flowers he needs are about to be wiped out by the white man's bulldozers. Lorraine Bracco is the feisty, uptight biochemist who has been assigned to check up on him. The movie is framed as an ''African Queen''/''Romancing the Stone''-style screwball romance, yet this duo is out of whack: Connery's fierce, playful virility is as winning as ever, but Bracco delivers her wisecracks in an overbearing Bronx whine; she's like a trumpet blaring in your ear. The movie ends up yoking together medical wish fulfillment and save-the-rain-forest agitprop into a neat, messagey package.


Posted Feb 28, 1992
 

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