The Mosquito Coast

Theatrical - Wide 1986-11-26

Cast Harrison Ford Helen Mirren River Phoenix Conrad Roberts
Directed by Peter Weir
Written by Paul Schrader

Genres: Adventure

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6/10

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Allie Fox has never been a man to do things by the book. An avid inventor, he is a troubled genuis given to intense moods and an incredible drive. Seemingly on a whim, he shifts his family to the jungles of... See more Central America, telling his children that America “is gone”. Determined to create a civilization better than the one he has abandoned, Fox’s obsession and mania might pull his family through, or it might pull them apart.

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