Fire on the Amazon

Fire on the Amazon is a 1993 American-Peruvian adventure drama film directed by Luis Llosa and starring Craig Sheffer and Sandra Bullock. Plot In Bolivia's Amazon basin, corporate cattle ranches are replacing the rain forest. When Santos, the charismatic leader of the union of rubber tappers, forges an alliance with Natives to protest deforestation, he is assassinated. R.J. O'Brien, a US photo-journalist who has no skills as an investigator, wants a story when he thinks the police have framed and murdered an innocent Native as the assassin. In his search for the truth, he involves Alyssa Rothman; who worked for Santos, and who he falls in love with and vice versa. As he gets deeper into trouble with the cops and the real assassin, he needs not only Alyssa's help, but also that of the Natives' leader. Cast Craig Sheffer as R.J. O'Brien Sandra Bullock as Alyssa Rothman Juan Fernández as Ataninde Judith Chapman as Sandra Ramsay Ross as Pistoleiro David Elkin as Lucavida Jorge García Bustamante as Valdez Baldomero Cáceres as Pedro Carlos Victoria as Miguel Reynaldo Arenas as Djamori Eduardo Cesti as Rafael Santos