DramaAdventure

The Mosquito Coast

- He went too far.

Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to Belize. In the jungle, he tries with mad determination to create a utopian community with disastrous results.

Release Date : 1986-11-26

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Warner Bros. Pictures

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Allie Fox

Original Name : Harrison Ford

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mother Fox

Original Name : Helen Mirren

Gender : Female

Character Name : Charlie Fox

Original Name : River Phoenix

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mr. Haddy

Original Name : Conrad Roberts

Gender : Male

Character Name : Emily Spellgood

Original Name : Martha Plimpton

Gender : Female

Character Name : Reverend Spellgood

Original Name : Andre Gregory

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mr. Polski

Original Name : Dick O'Neill

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jerry Fox

Original Name : Jadrien Steele

Gender : Male

Character Name : Francis Lungley

Original Name : Michael Rogers

Gender : Male

Character Name : April Fox

Original Name : Hilary Gordon

Gender : Female

Character Name : Clover Fox

Original Name : Rebecca Gordon

Gender : Female

Character Name : Hardware Clerk

Original Name : Jason Alexander

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ma Kennywick

Original Name : Butterfly McQueen

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mr. Semper

Original Name : Tiger Haynes

Gender : Male

Character Name : Captain Smalls

Original Name : William Newman

Gender : Male

Reviews

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2021-06-23

**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