Product Details

• Actors: Jennifer Lopez, Robert Loggia
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: First Look Pictures
• DVD Release Date: June 21, 2005
• Run Time: 109 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0008ENI2K
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #89,466 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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LOST IN THE WILD - DVD Movie

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining, although obvious. Many fine actresses., August 7, 2007

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Thomas M. Sipos (Santa Monica, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lost in the Wild (DVD)

This is an early 1990s TV movie (hence, it's full screen). It hits all the usual emotional buttons.

As four student nurses fly to a clinic in the Mexican jungle, along with some doctors, one of their three planes crashes. The other two planes land. Then the nurses and remaining doctors must find the group that went down, treat them, and arrange to fly them out to an advanced American hospital.

This film is full of cliches and stereotypes. Poor but noble peasants who are honest and generous with their meager belongings rally to help the doctors who helped them. Corrupt Mexican soldiers and government officials are callously indifferent to the doctors' plight. Evil drug lords lurk menacingly in the jungle, posing a potential threat to the doctors. Banditos rob the downed plane. Mexican-American student nurse Jennifer Lopez visits a local Catholic church, lighting a candle, to the warmly smiling approval of the poor villagers.

One patient "dies." Two doctors declare him dead. But a gutsy, spunky student nurse refuses to accept that, and she manages to revive the patient, proving herself smarter than the doctors! (Give me a break!)

This is a predictable film, and hard to believe it's all true. It's supposedly based on a true story, but I suspect they embellished heavily.

Still, it has many good actresses. Lindsay Wagner is the star; she plays an older student nurse who went back to college after divorcing her doctor-husband. She worries that others think she's too old. Farrah Forke is another nurse. Some may remember her as "Alex" from the WINGS sitcom. And it's always nice to see Jennifer Lopez. She has a small cliched role as another nurse, one who ruminates about her Mexican roots (her poor peasant father had immigrated from Mexico, and she's the first of her family to go into medicine).

Contrary to the DVD cover, Jennifer Lopez's part is small. Although this is an ensemble film, Lindsay Wagner is the lead star; Lopez is a minor supporting player.

An enjoyable TV movie, if you like the actresses and don't mind the cliches.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Jennifer Lopez - The Beginning!, June 29, 2005

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N. Okaili "naman007" (Dubai, UAE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lost in the Wild (DVD)

While heading towards a makeshift medical outpost deep into the Mexican jungle, one of three planes crashes, stranding a group of doctors and student nurses, some of whom are critically injured. This taut adventure follows the attempts of the others to locate the downed plane and save the lives of the survivors. Once the search party finds the injured medics, their next challenge is to get them to a proper medical facility. One in particular could die any moment. The searchers could have treated them on the spot had not local natives appeared and looted the downed plane of its drugs. A nearby landing strip promises a chance to get the injured passengers to safety, but unfortunately that would precipitate a night flight and recent anti-drug operations laws strictly prohibit flying after dark. One brave doctor volunteers to traverse the jungle to a nearby town in hopes of convincing authorities to make an exception. Meanwhile the rest of the entourage must somehow make it safely to the airstrip by daylight.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lindsay Wagner, July 11, 2011

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Tigger N Bear "Tig" (AZ) - See all my reviews

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Lost in the Wild is based on a true story and I really enjoy watching Lindsay Wagner movies and TV series. It was a bonus to have a young Jennifer Lopez in this movie as well as Lindsay Wagner. It is a great movie of family relationships, dedication, and perseverance. Lots of excitement too.