- Adventure, Drama, History
- 108 min
- PG-13
Rotten Tomatoes42%Metacritic45IMDb6.8
Dare to Make Contact
"End of the Spear" is the story of Mincayani, a Waodani tribesman from the jungles of Ecuador. When five young missionaries, among them Jim Elliot and Nate Saint, are speared to death by the Waodani in 1956, a series of events unfold to change the lives of not only the slain missionaries' families, but also Mincayani and his people.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and effortless.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Wuchakon TMDB · Nov 20237/10
**_There’s more to life than rashly killing people with a spear_** In 1956, several American missionaries deep in the Amazon basin try to contact the warring Waodani tribe, who live near the Curaray River in eastern Ecuador. Thirty-eight years later, the son of one of the missionaries goes back to the area to reacquaint with the people he met as a child. “End of the Spear” (2005) is a drama with some thrills based on the true story. Movies with a similar milieu include “Fitzcarraldo,” “The Emerald Forest,” “At Play in the Fields of the Lord,” “Medicine Man” and “The Lost City of Z,” even “The Mosquito Coast.” Sure, this one is more ‘faith-based’ due to the subject matter, but the director lets the facts speak for themselves with no glossing over and no sanitizing; just the facts. The viewer is left to interpret them. If you like any of those flicks, you can’t go wrong with this one. Even if you’re a strict atheist, the evangelical element is played down. When the biblical message is conveyed, it’s presented in the same way it was given to the Waodani in real-life: In concepts or symbols from their everyday language. For instance, ‘God’ is replaced with ‘Waengongi,’ which is the cre
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Cast
- Louie LeonardoMincayani
- Chad AllenNate Saint / Steve Saint / Narrator
- Jack GuzmanKimo
- Chase EllisonYoung Steve Saint
- Sylvia JefferiesBarbara Youderian
- Christina SouzaDayumae
- Chemo MepaquitoGikita
- Ninabet BedoyaGimade
- Sara Kathryn BakkerRachel Saint
- Cara StonerMarj Saint
Crew
- Jim HanonDirector
- Bill EwingWriter
- Bart GaviganWriter
- Jim HanonWriter
- Robert DriskellDirector of Photography
- Miles HanonEditor
- Bill EwingProducer
- Bart GaviganProducer
- Mart GreenProducer
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