Congo

Theatrical - Wide 1995-06-09

Cast Laura Linney Dylan Walsh Ernie Hudson Tim Curry Grant Heslov Joe Baker
Directed by Frank Marshall
Written by John Shanley

Genres: Action Adventure Mystery Sci-Fi

JoBlo's Rating

5/10

Synopsis

Greed is bad, this simple morality tale cautions. A megalomaniacal C.E.O. sends his son into the dangerous African Congo on a quest for a source of diamonds large enough and pure enough to function as powerful laser communications transmitters (or is... See more it laser weapons?). When contact is lost with his son and the team, his sometime daughter- in-law is sent after them. She is a former CIA operative and, accompanied by gee-whiz gadgetry and a few eccentric characters (including a mercenary, a researcher with a talking gorilla, and a a nutty Indiana-Jones-type looking for King Solomon’s Mines), sets out to rescue her former fiance. What they all discover is that often what we most want turns out to be the source of our downfall.

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