Your boyfriend wants to meet your family? Run. Especially if your family lives in a jungle full of secrets.
Clara grew up in the Belize jungles but was sent to live in San Francisco after a childhood trauma. Her older boyfriend, Gabriel encourages a trip back to her jungle home. Once arriving, the familiar faces and tropic environment fills Clara with hope for a brighter future. She's soon reminded that the jungle has a dark side and begins to realize that Gabriel may have an even darker one himself.
Cinematography
Belize locations that look lush enough to eat you alive
Acting
Lacey Dorn's fragile resolve vs. Spano's sleazy charm
Direction
Coppola family weirdness—yes, THAT Coppola family
Director
Christopher Coppola
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Christopher Coppola is Francis Ford Coppola's nephew and Nicolas Cage's brother—yes, the family tree is cursed with talent.
The film was shot entirely in Belize with local crew, making its colonial-gothic atmosphere uncomfortably authentic to the country's actual history of exploitation.
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