<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $17.2 million </Td> </Tr> <P> The Lost City of Z is a 2016 American biographical adventure drama film written and directed by James Gray, based on the 2009 book of the same name by David Grann . It describes real events surrounding British explorer Percy Fawcett who was sent to Bolivia and later made several attempts to find an ancient lost city in the Amazon and disappeared in 1925 along with his son on an expedition . It stars Charlie Hunnam as Fawcett along with Robert Pattinson as his fellow explorer Henry Costin and Sienna Miller as his wife Nina Fawcett . </P> <P> The film had its world premiere as closing night film on October 15, 2016, at the New York Film Festival and was released in the United States on April 14, 2017, by Amazon Studios and Bleecker Street . The film was praised by critics, though it only grossed $17.2 million against a $30 million budget . </P> <P> In Ireland in 1905, Percy Fawcett is a young British officer participating in a stag hunt on an Irish baronial estate for the benefit of the visiting Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria . A skilled horseman and marksman, he brings down the stag swiftly but is snubbed at the after - hunt party . A year later, Fawcett is sent to London to meet with officials of the Royal Geographical Society . The governments of Bolivia and Brazil are nearly at war over the location of their mutual boundary, and have asked the British government to survey it . Fawcett agrees to lead the survey party to restore his family's good name . On the ship to Brazil, Fawcett meets Corporal Henry Costin, who has knowledge of the Amazon rainforest . At a large rubber plantation in the jungle owned by the Portuguese nobleman Baron de Gondoris, the two meet Corporal Arthur Manley, who tells them that the British government advises against further exploration . Fawcett, with several guides and the Amazonian scout Tadjui, completes the mission . Tadjui tells Fawcett stories about a city in the jungle covered in gold and full of people . Fawcett dismisses such stories as insane ravings, but discovers highly advanced broken pottery and some small stone statues in the jungle that convince him Tadjui's story was true . </P>

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