The Mosquito Coast (1986)
Country: US
Technical: col 117m
Director: Peter Weir
Cast: Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix
Synopsis:
A driven inventor shuns American civilization and moves with his wife and son to Central America, but is pursued by both a fanatical and commercialist missionary and the man-beast within himself.
Review:
A typically intense and tragic Weir film, in which a boy watches aghast as his father careers on his Ahab-like journey of self-destruction. Ford turns in his best performance to date as a man who vainly seeks to escape what has been done to the world in his name, but ends up turning paradise into a travesty of his own devising.
Country: US
Technical: col 117m
Director: Peter Weir
Cast: Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix
Synopsis:
A driven inventor shuns American civilization and moves with his wife and son to Central America, but is pursued by both a fanatical and commercialist missionary and the man-beast within himself.
Review:
A typically intense and tragic Weir film, in which a boy watches aghast as his father careers on his Ahab-like journey of self-destruction. Ford turns in his best performance to date as a man who vainly seeks to escape what has been done to the world in his name, but ends up turning paradise into a travesty of his own devising.
Country: US
Technical: col 117m
Director: Peter Weir
Cast: Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix
Synopsis:
A driven inventor shuns American civilization and moves with his wife and son to Central America, but is pursued by both a fanatical and commercialist missionary and the man-beast within himself.
Review:
A typically intense and tragic Weir film, in which a boy watches aghast as his father careers on his Ahab-like journey of self-destruction. Ford turns in his best performance to date as a man who vainly seeks to escape what has been done to the world in his name, but ends up turning paradise into a travesty of his own devising.