The Mosquito Coast

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Original title: The Mosquito Coast
Year: 1986
Running time: 117 min.
Country: United States
Director: Peter Weir
Screenwriter: Paul Schrader (Novel: Paul Theroux)
Music: Maurice Jarre
Cinematography: John Seale
Cast: Harrison Ford, River Phoenix, Helen Mirren, Andre Gregory, Martha Plimpton, Jadrien Steele, Hilary Gordon, Rebecca Gordon, Jason Alexander, Dick O´Neill, Alice Sneed
Producer: The Saul Zaentz Company, Jerome Hellman Productions (Distributor: Warner Bros.)
Genre: Adventure. Drama
Synopsis / Plot: 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: 1986: 2 nominations for Golden Globe: Actor in Drama (Ford), Original Score.

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