Jungle Cruise 🎥 2021 Movie Info

Plot Summary

In 1556, Don Aguirre leads Spanish conquistadors to South America to search for the Tears of the Moon, a mythical tree whose flowers can cure illness and lift curses, believing it may save his ill daughter. After many conquistadors die, the Puka Michuna tribe heals the survivors with the Tree’s flowers. The tribal chief refuses to reveal the Tree’s location, so Aguirre stabs him and burns the village. The dying chief curses the conquistadors, making them immortal and unable to leave sight of the Amazon River without being dragged back by the jungle itself. In 1916 London, McGregor Houghton presents his sister Dr. Lily Houghton’s research of the Tree to the Royal Society, which bars women members.

The Houghtons hope to revolutionize medicine and aid the British war effort, so they request access to a recently acquired arrowhead that Lily believes can locate the Tree in Lágrimas de Cristal[b] but are denied. Lily steals the arrowhead, narrowly evading Prince Joachim, who is equally intent on finding the Tree for himself and the German Empire. After arriving in Brazil, Lily and MacGregor hire skipper Frank Wolff to guide them down the Amazon. Frank, who offers jungle cruises embellished with faked dangers, initially declines, citing the dangerous river and jungle, but reconsiders upon seeing the arrowhead.

The trio departs after escaping Joachim’s U-boat. While snooping through Frank’s cabin below deck, Lily discovers his research of the Tree, but he insists he stopped searching long ago. They are captured by cannibals that are actually the Puka Michuna who work for Frank as part of his contrived jungle cruise. Angered, Lily arrogantly accuses Frank of being a liar and decides to find the Tree herself. Tribal chief Trader Sam translates the symbols on the arrowhead, revealing the Tree’s location at La Luna Rota, and that it only blooms under a blood moon.

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