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The Mosquito Coast

  • 19861986
  • PGPG
  • 1h 57m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
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Harrison Ford in The Mosquito Coast (1986)
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An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia.An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia.An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia.
IMDb RATING
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30K
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POPULARITY
516
2,035
    • Peter Weir
    • Paul Theroux(novel)
    • Paul Schrader(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Harrison Ford
    • Helen Mirren
    • River Phoenix
    • Peter Weir
    • Paul Theroux(novel)
    • Paul Schrader(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Harrison Ford
    • Helen Mirren
    • River Phoenix
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 125User reviews
    • 35Critic reviews
    • 51Metascore
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    Harrison Ford
    Harrison Ford
    • Allie Fox
    Helen Mirren
    Helen Mirren
    • Mother
    River Phoenix
    River Phoenix
    • Charlie
    Jadrien Steele
    • Jerry
    Hilary Gordon
    • April
    Rebecca Gordon
    • Clover
    Jason Alexander
    Jason Alexander
    • Clerk
    Dick O'Neill
    Dick O'Neill
    • Mr. Polski
    Alice Heffernan-Sneed
    • Mrs. Polski
    • (as Alice Sneed)
    Tiger Haynes
    • Mr. Semper
    William Newman
    William Newman
    • Captain Smalls
    Andre Gregory
    Andre Gregory
    • Reverend Spellgood
    Melanie Boland
    • Mrs. Spellgood
    Martha Plimpton
    Martha Plimpton
    • Emily Spellgood
    Raymond Clare
    • Convert 1
    Emory King
    • Man at Bar
    Conrad Roberts
    Conrad Roberts
    • Mr. Haddy
    Michael Rogers
    • Francis Lungley
      • Peter Weir
      • Paul Theroux(novel)
      • Paul Schrader(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      River Phoenix and Harrison Ford had a very close bond. Ford personally recommended Phoenix for the part of young Indy in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) after working with him on this movie. Ford stated that of all of the young actors who were working at the time, River was the one who looked the most like him when he was that age.
    • Goofs
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    • Quotes

      Emily Spellgood: [to Charlie] I think about you when I go to the bathroom.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: The Mosquito Coast/Streets of Gold/Crocodile Dundee/Rate It X (1986)
    • Soundtracks
      Clap Your Hands
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      Performed by Grace Gospel Primary School Choir

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    10/10
    Life on La Mosquitia – Chronicles of the Fox Family
    Mosquito Coast is one of the best books I have ever read, and the movie does super well to do justice to that novel. It is also one of Harrison Ford's best character roles; the eccentricity and opinionated genius of Allie is done to perfection by him. Peter Weir's brilliant direction is to be expected considering his other masterpieces – Fearless, also based on an excellent book of the same name, is one of the best movies yet. His films (Truman Show, Green Card, and Witness come to mind) tend to chronicle troubles and eccentric characters to go out on a limb, literally.

    The narration is carefully done, only enough voice-overs to explain the philosophical implications and underpinnings of the characters' thoughts and actions. There are, of course, some mysterious elements to how things happen, which can only be remedied by reading Theroux's book of the same name.

    Taking a very Robinson Crusoe-esquire piece of fiction and putting it to film is not an easy process. In fact, this is the kind of novel that can be very easily messed up by the movies with strong action and adventure type Hollywood direction. Luckily, Weir has done an excellent job portraying the characters – not so much the plot – of those who will come to inhabit The Mosquito Coast. In short, not only is Mosquito Coast a film to watch, it should be required.

    RATING: 10/10 "We eat when we're not hungry, drink when we're not thirsty. We buy what we don't need and throw away everything that's useful. Why sell a man what he wants? Sell him what he doesn't need. Pretend he's got eight legs and two stomachs and money to burn. It's wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong."
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    • Oct 17, 2005

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    • Release date
      • November 26, 1986 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
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      • Belize
    • Production companies
      • The Saul Zaentz Company
      • Jerome Hellman Productions
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    • 1 hour 57 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Stereo

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