The Mosquito Coast

11/26/19861h 59m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ He went too far. ~

Overview:

An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia.

Director:

Peter Weir

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$25,000,000.00

Revenue:

$14,302,779.00

Key words:

paradise
based on novel or book
idealism
exit
governance
idealist
honduras
nature
emigrant

Cast

Harrison Ford

~ as ~

Allie Fox

Helen Mirren

~ as ~

Mother Fox

River Phoenix

~ as ~

Charlie Fox

Conrad Roberts

~ as ~

Mr. Haddy

Martha Plimpton

~ as ~

Emily Spellgood

Andre Gregory

~ as ~

Reverend Spellgood

Dick O'Neill

~ as ~

Mr. Polski

Jadrien Steele

~ as ~

Jerry Fox

Michael Rogers

~ as ~

Francis Lungley

Hilary Gordon

~ as ~

April Fox

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Reviews (1)

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Written 10 year(s) ago
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Disney for Anarchists

Before there was a McConaissance there was a Harrisance, That's right, you heard right: Harrisance. Within a few years in the 1980's Harrison da Chicago lead what was arguably the greatest adventure movie ever mounted, and possibly the best science fiction movie ever launched. He was also featured in that adorable little Star Wars trilogy. Not to mention a slew of fine movies like Presumed Innocent, Frantic, the Fugitive, and two thrillers as Jack Ryan. Among my favourite movies from the Harrisance period (if I keep saying it, it will be a thing) were two directed by Peter Weir, an Aussie who never met a cultural clash he didn't want to shoot. Weir directed a couple of American films and chose the right man to lead them. Witness was well-liked and had a righteously tough Harrison cop defending the Amish. But in my opinion, Mosquito Coast was better. Look at the headliners. Harrison Ford , Helen Mirren, River Pheonix, from a story by Paul Theroux, scripted by Paul (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull) Schrader. The jaded Film Critics at the time weren't exactly blown away by the movie's ambitious scope but liked the way Harrison could play an anti-hero. What's so anti about him? He was great! I wish he was my dad. I would have loved to go on an escapist adventure with a genius inventor father who had grand visions of erecting a new utopia in the forests of Belize by manufacturing ice in the tropics. Okay, maybe he went too far. Got a bit swollen-headed and delirious. Became the patriarchal tyrant he was running away from. But that was from the rage he felt when realizing that while (in the 1980's) he might be able to elude multinational greed, he can't escape human avarice. O the tragedy of humans