Turistas
2006 American film
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- Turistas ( ; English: Tourists , released in the United Kingdom and Ireland as Paradise Lost ) is a 2006 American horror film produced and directed by John Stockwell, written by Michael Arlen Ross, and starring Josh Duhamel, Melissa George, Olivia Wilde, Desmond Askew, Max Brown, and Beau Garrett.
- It was the first American film to be exclusively shot in Brazil.
- Plot Three young American tourists, Alex, his sister Bea, and her friend Amy, are backpacking in Brazil.
- The group find a cabana bar where several other tourists are partying.
- The next morning, they awaken on the deserted beach, robbed of their luggage, money and travel documents.
Turistas (; English: Tourists, released in the United Kingdom and Ireland as Paradise Lost) is a 2006 American horror film produced and directed by John Stockwell, written by Michael Arlen Ross, and starring Josh Duhamel, Melissa George, Olivia Wilde, Desmond Askew, Max Brown, and Beau Garrett. Its plot focuses on a group of international backpackers in Brazil who find themselves in the clutches of an underground organ trafficking ring.
It was the first American film to be exclusively shot in Brazil. It was also the first film distributed by Fox Atomic, a subsidiary of 20th Century Fox, which released it theatrically in the United States on December 1, 2006.
Plot
Three young American tourists, Alex, his sister Bea, and her friend Amy, are backpacking in Brazil. After a bus crash leaves all the passengers stranded, they are joined by two British men, Finn and Liam, and an Australian woman, Pru, who is fluent in Portuguese.
The group find a cabana bar where several other tourists are partying. After spending the day on the beach, they are served drugged drinks and pass out. The next morning, they awaken on the deserted beach, robbed of their luggage, money and travel documents. Looking for help in a nearby village, Kiko, a young local who speaks some English, volunteers to take them to his uncle's isolated house in the forest where they can wait for a ride.
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