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The Mosquito Coast

Name: The Mosquito Coast
Director: Peter Weir
Genre: Drama, Adventure
Released: 1986
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix, Jadrien Steele, Hilary Gordon

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

1986 · Directed by Peter Weir · 119 min · Drama · Adventure · 10 frames

Tagline

He never bargained for what he found.

Crew

Screenplay: Paul Schrader
Cinematography: John Seale
Edited by: Thom Noble
Music: Maurice Jarre
Production design: John Stoddart
Produced by: Peter Weir, Jerome Hellman

Cast

Harrison Ford as Allie Fox
Helen Mirren as Mother Fox
River Phoenix as Charlie Fox
Jadrien Steele as Jerry Fox
Hilary Gordon as April Fox
Rebecca Gordon as Clover Fox
Jason Alexander as Hardware Clerk
Dick O'Neill as Mr. Polski
Alice Heffernan-Sneed as Mrs. Polski
Tiger Haynes as Mr. Semper

Production

Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studios: The Saul Zaentz Company
Budget: $25,000,000
Box office: $14,302,779
Themes: paradise, based on novel or book, idealism, exit, governance, idealist, honduras, nature, emigrant

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Picnic at Hanging Rock — 1975
The Year of Living Dangerously — 1982
Gallipoli — 1981
Green Card — 1990
Dead Poets Society — 1989
The Truman Show — 1998
The Way Back — 2010
The Cars That Ate Paris — 1974
The Last Wave — 1977
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World — 2003
Witness — 1985

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