Fire On The Amazon

shortly before her breakout role in speed future oscar winner sandra bullock starred in this scorching adventure filmed on location in the deadly streets and jungles of the bolivian amazon bullock portrays alyssa rothman an american activist battling a group of ruthless developers out to destroy the rainforest and its native population but when a hotheaded photojournalist craig sheffer of a river runs through it and one tree hill arrives to investigate the murder of a local union leader they will together uncover a conspiracy of betrayal violence and passion in a land engulfed by greed and threatened with ecological disaster does any fire burn hotter than the truth juan fernandez the collector and judith chapman the young and the restless co star in this provocative drama from director luis llosa the specialist and anaconda and oscar winning producer roger corman death race piranha