The Mosquito Coast
- Original title
- The Mosquito Coast
- Year
- 1986
- Running time
- 117 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Paul Schrader. Novel: Paul Theroux
- Cast
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- Harrison Ford
- River Phoenix
- Helen Mirren
- Andre Gregory
- Martha Plimpton
- Jadrien Steele
- Hilary Gordon
- Rebecca Gordon
- Jason Alexander
- Dick O´Neill
- Alice Sneed
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Adventure. Drama
- Movie Groups
- Paul Theroux Adaptations
- Synopsis
- A brilliant and obsessive inventor, fed up with capitalistic and consumeristic modern society, picks up and moves his family to an isolated Caribbean island, where he puts his ideas into practice. Under his guidance, his new home at first becomes a paradise, but bit by bit, both his mind and his world begin to fall apart.
- Awards
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1986: 2 nominations for Golden Globe: Actor in Drama (Ford), Original Score.
- Critics' reviews
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"It is hard to believe that a film as beautiful as The Mosquito Coast can also be so bleak, but therein lies its power and undoing"
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"Peter Weir's 1986 adaptation of Paul Theroux's best-selling novel is literally that - an adaptation without much character of its own"
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"The movie has been directed and acted so well, in fact, that almost all my questions have to do with the script: Why was the hero made so uncompromisingly hateful?"
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