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 »



Charlie:
My father often talked of things being revealed - that was true invention, he said. Revealing something's use, and magnifying it; discovering its imperfections, improving it, and putting it to work for you. God had left the world incomplete, he said, and it was man's job to understand how it worked, to tinker with it, and to finish it. I think that was why he hated missionaries so much - because they taught people to put up with their earthly burdens. For father, there were no burdens that couldn't be fitted with a set of wheels, or rudders, or a system of pulleys.

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