Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix
An eccentric and dogmatic inventor sells his house and takes his family to Central America to build an ice factory in the middle of the jungle. Conflicts with his family, a local preacher and with nat...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 6, 2001
Stats: 475 reviews
I believe this is Harrison Ford's best performance so far and certainly one of Peter Weir's best. It's the age old story of faith over science and how it affects one mans family and ultimately leads him into madness. It's a brilliant film. Whatever happened to Martha Plimpton tho...( read more)
Harrison Ford in one of his earliest un-heroic roles as know-it-all inventor taking his family to the Central American jungle where things go bad rather soon as the eccentric father is getting more and more obsessed with his ideas and ideals, which ironically aren't better than t...( read more)
Science vs. faith, The Mosquito Coast delves into the persistences of civilisation wrought onto the merits of fortune through hope or rewards through determination. Weir's delicate eye has lensed a gorgeous picture painted with the brush of a naturalist and with the moral clarity...( read more)
A decent movie, I guess - conceptually original and cinematographically interesting. It's also nice to see Harrison Ford play a character not franchised into a three-movie deal, accompanied by the very talented River Phoenix and Helen Mirren. Easy to watch with decent acting and ...( read more)
After Witness, people expected great things with this re-teaming of Ford and Weir. Most did not expect this. Ford plays Allie Fox, a genius inventor who becomes fed up with the U.S. and drags his family to Central America to create his own utopia. Widely panned by critics and a r...( read more)
Good movie. Harrison Ford is wonderful in his role as an inventor who drags his family to S. America to start an knew life in the jungle. The Mosquito Coast is ultimately depressing, but it's a memorable tale all the same.
Sanity never seemed more far away from a strange genius. His young son, played by an extraordinary River Phoenix, narrates the film and tells a tale of how his father nearly got his entire family killed.
Top notch acting, directing and a beautiful/enigmatic choice of scenery. But above all, a fantastic story of a driven man on a quest to escape the momentum of mediocrity of modern civilization, and his struggle to establish a life for him and his family elsewhere, highly recommen...( read more)
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