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The Ruins is a american film of genre Drama directed by Carter Smith released in USA on 2 april 2008 with Jonathan Tucker
The Ruins (2008)
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Add to a movie listThe Ruins is a 2008 horror film directed by Carter Smith which stars Jonathan Tucker, Shawn Ashmore, Jena Malone, Laura Ramsey, and Joe Anderson. Released in 2008, the American-Australian co-production is based on the novel of the same name by Scott Smith, who also wrote the screenplay.
Synopsis
Two young American couples (Jeff and Amy, and Eric and Stacy) on vacation in Mexico make friends with a German tourist, Mathias, and decide to help him look for his brother, Heinrich. Heinrich had met a female archaeologist and followed her to an archaeological dig at a remote Mayan ruin in the jungle but has not been seen since. Dimitri, a friend of Mathias, joins the bus journey to the Mayan site using a crude map drawn by Heinrich.Actors
Jonathan Tucker
(Jeff McIntire)
Jena Malone
(Amy)
Shawn Ashmore
(Eric)
Laura Ramsey
(Stacy)
Joe Anderson
(Mathias)
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