Mosquito Coast

     

Mosquito Coast1986

Director: Peter Weir
Stars: Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix, Conrad Roberts, Andre Gregory
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Runtime: 117 minutes

A year after his American film debut, Peter Weir reteamed with his Witness star (Harrison Ford) for a tricky adaptation of Paul Theroux's novel of a modern man who takes his family into the jungle. The results are mixed, but the film is galvanized b… more »


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We eat when we're not hungry, drink when we're not thirsty. We buy what we don't need and throw away everything that's useful. Why sell a man what he wants? Sell him what he doesn't need. Pretend he's got eight legs and two stomachs and money to burn. It's wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

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