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The Mushroom Eater

1976, Movie, NR, 100 mins

The Mushroom Eater: Review

An elderly Mexican plantation owner finds a young black boy in the jungle and raises him as one of his own children. Though his two older children dislike the boy, the younger daughter grows close to him, and, as they mature, the two fall in love. They also take to a black panther chained in the courtyard that their mother hates. She tries to have an affair with her adopted son. But he repels her, and she runs off only to be killed by the panther which has mysteriously gotte... read more leave a comment