The Mosquito Coast
by Peter Weir
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Actor: Conrad Roberts, Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Martha Plimpton, River PhoenixDirector: Peter Weir
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 4.0; French (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 4.0
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 117 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-30
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of The Mosquito Coast
Movie Review: Classic rendition of Choices
Summary: 5 Stars
This is dated but still important as an alternative choice to the lives many of us live in urban or suburban neighborhoods. Haven't you often wished you could go off to some remote tropical island and just live on your wits, without the traffic, the hassles, bills, troubles, violence and of course law and order.
Well, here is a first hand look at the choices one family made to "live it their way". We quickly find that paradise isn't what we thought it might be and that living "off the land" is no easy matter. Without some modern conveniences life is pretty primitive and eventually becomes very difficult.
Enter the violent trio of desperados, call them unwanted guests, or pests, whatever...but they won't leave and they have GUNS. Ok, so much for this idyllic situation, time to wreck everything we have built from scratch, and off we go to some other place aboard a leaky old boat that becomes shipwrecked and now we get to do it all over again. Are we having fun yet??
In order to avoid a vicious tropical storm, we now have to ferry our way up river in this palm frond ark, encroaching on a nearby Religious mission.
Enter the crazed Revered with a GUN to protect his flock from invading deranged crazies from another part of the jungle....well the whole thing falls apart, the main character is lost in his own thoughts and the poor family he sucked into following him on HIS dream are left high and dry on the beach to fend for themselves...quite an adventure worth watching a couple times, especially if you get wonderlust or think about living on some tropical island paradise.
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