The Mosquito Coast

The Mosquito Coast

  • Director: Peter Weir
  • Writer: Paul Theroux,Paul Schrader
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English, Spanish
  • Release date: November 26, 1986
  • Sound mix: Dolby Stereo
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Mosquito Coast
  • The mosquito coast is a 1986 adventure film directed by Peter Weir , starring Harrison Ford and River Phoenix . .
    The film tells the story of Allie Fox taking her family to a jungle in the middle of the United States.

    Details

    • Release date November 26, 1986
    • Filming locations Rome, Georgia, USA
    • Production companies The Saul Zaentz Company, Jerome Hellman Productions

    Box office

    Budget

    $25,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $14,302,779

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $110,313

    Gross worldwide

    $14,302,779

    Movie reviews

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    • By Erich 2022-11-27 19:18:44

      Thoughts on this movie

      A very thought-provoking film, perfect for a critical essay :)

      selfishness vs. responsibility

      Allie is probably the most worthy of analysis on this topic. His selfishness is evident throughout, especially when he says "i'm here to work for you" and "i'm doing this for you".

      Selfishness can make a person lose responsibility, because when the desire to accomplish something is too strong, he will sacrifice everything to achieve the goal, even the right to affect...

    • By Sheila 2022-11-20 16:21:49

      A Utopian Practice in American Fury

      The mosquito coast cast was a powerful cast, including Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, and the untimely River Phoenix. The shooting time was 1986, when the River was still full of sunshine. And now, not only has River returned to heaven, but the movie has become so obscure that the Chinese subtitles cannot be found. . .

      The story itself is not complicated, and Fox, the American inventor played by Harrison Ford, is a typical anger. He hated the rotten and depraved modern civilization, and...

    • By Colten 2022-10-02 00:24:12

      Utopian paranoia

      The protagonist, Allie Fox, despises Japan as a great American on the one hand, and the world together with the United States on the other. A world that has the mind of a scientist but wants to abandon this science and live in groups. He ridiculed Robinson for spending a lot of effort to return to the city from the deserted island, but he did not know that he returned from heaven to hell. Go to the most primitive and ancient starting point of the earth, use his superhuman scientific mind to...

    • By Richmond 2022-09-14 20:48:48

      from the new world

      "You know what's the biggest crux of the 20th century, kid?" Harrison Ford's Eli asked his son Charlie (River Felix), but as before, before Charlie could answer, He has already given the answer, "I can't stand loneliness." At this time, he was taking his family to a small remote village in Honduras, trying to build a civilization that thrived on human wisdom. 1986's Mosquito Coast may be the most self-aware work of Peter Weir's Hollywood period, and the most complete failure of his film career,...

    • By Juliet 2022-09-09 05:14:09

      very complicated movie

      The associations are as follows:
      1. The metaphorical form reminds me of "Let the Bullets Fly".
      2. The story mode reminds me of another director's movie "The Truman World", I don't remember where I saw a sentence: some directors have been making the same movie all their lives. Of course.
      3. The ice machine uses steam, so I guessed it was a lithium bromide unit at first, and then I thought that steam drive can also drive a Freon compressor unit, haha.
      4. The explosion of the...

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    • By Elroy 2023-09-21 10:11:45

      How can I forget to mark this for more than four years. I'll always remember that afternoon watching River's face come alive on the screen, thinking about what his fiery soul was supposed to see, and then decided to leave for another city to see the Pacific Ocean. He was my inspiration. I will love him forever and Ever. "I will love you for a hundred centuries." So will you be me, one of the few...

    • By Catalina 2023-08-20 05:00:59

      Terrific fable. Making ice in the tropical jungle has almost become a motif. Who was the first to adopt it? Marquez? ? The paranoia and extremes in Allie's character are too weak; if the priest is not so facialized, it may be deeper and more complicated, but it may also strengthen the conflict of characters and weaken the presentation of...

    • By Brain 2023-08-19 06:47:06

      very utopian...

    • By Melody 2023-07-27 21:33:22

      It took me nearly ten years to come around. It's so hard to see you. Imagine you once had a family that had you experienced all kinds of hardships. Yet you love them with every fiber of your...

    • By Linnea 2023-07-16 03:30:54

      I admire the wife's ability to silently tolerate the crazy and absurd idea of ​​supporting the male protagonist...! The male protagonist is as paranoid as Trump... The male protagonist should just practice his idealism by himself, there is no need to drag his wife and children into the...

    Movie plot

    It tells the story of Allie Fox, a troubled and stubborn inventor who one day took his family to a jungle in the middle of the United States on a whim to create a country with a better civilization than America. But his ideas and reality constantly conflict, in the end he and his family can survive this difficult story.
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    Background creation

    The film's director, Australian Peter Weir, is known for his "Garipo's", "A Dangerous Year" and "The Witness". The film was written by Paul Schrader, who wrote "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull." This film shows the insignificance in the confrontation between man and society and nature; but the persistence of the protagonist also shows the value of man. Harrison Ford's performance is amazing, his character is clear, and he brings out the...
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    Production and distribution

    Country release/release date (details)
    AustraliaAustraliaNovember 20, 1986
    USA USA November 26, 1986
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    Movie quotes

    • Allie Fox: Everything we need is here. Right here. We can live simply: gardening, beach combing. I'm a changed man, mother. No more chemicals or poisons. If what you want isn't washed up on this beach, you probably don't need it.

    • Charlie: Once I had believed in father and the world had seemed small and old. Now he was gone and I wasn't afraid to love him anymore. And the world seemed limitless.

    • Allie Fox: It's an absolute sin to accept the decadence of obsolescence. Why do things get worse and worse? They don't have to. They could get better and better. We accept that things fall apart.