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A bus crash in Brazil strands three young American backpackers: Alex, his teenage sister Bea and her friend Amy. Two British men, Finn and Liam, and Pru, an Australian, join them. At a cabana bar on a beach, other tourists are partying. Drugged drinks put the group to sleep, and they wake to find their luggage, money and travel documents gone. A young local, Kiko, offers to lead them to his uncle's house in the forest.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Turistas (2006)
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- Turistas was the first American film shot entirely on location in Brazil, in the Chapada Diamantina in Bahia and on the northern coast of Sao Paulo state, with many locals hired as extras and behind the scenes.
- Director John Stockwell took the job because of what had happened to him in Peru: he had been robbed by a group of glue-sniffing children and shot at, and when he went to the police they offered, for $300, to let him kill the kids. He came home, read the script and it resonated.
- Olivia Wilde blacked out while filming in the flooded caves after using up the oxygen in an air pocket too quickly. Her real panic was mistaken for acting, the crew calling out encouragement as she flailed around.
- The underwater cave sequences were shot largely without stunt doubles, and for one shot Josh Duhamel had to swim 100 yards to escape through a hole.
- Stockwell ran the shoot with no hair and makeup artists and no trailers for the actors. Melissa George compared it to making a Dogme film, saying they had no trailers, no shoes, no clothing and no makeup artists.
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For her operating-table scene, Beau Garrett sat for a body cast that took seven hours to build, then spent another twelve hours filming unable to move, eating in a fake torso and using a bed pan.- Brazilians boycotted the film over its portrayal of the country, and star Josh Duhamel apologized to the Brazilian government and people on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, saying it was never the film's intention to stop tourists visiting Brazil.
- Embratur, Brazil's government tourism agency, issued a statement that was grateful for the film's bad reviews in North America and said viewers would tell reality from fiction anyway.
