The Mosquito Coast
1986 · Movie · 117 min. · United States
A brilliant and obsessive inventor, fed up with capitalistic and consumeristic modern society, picks up and moves his family to an isolated Caribbean island, where he puts his ideas into practice. Under his guidance, his new home at first becomes a paradise, but bit by bit, both his mind and his world begin to fall apart.
Direction Peter Weir
Cast Harrison Ford · River Phoenix · Helen Mirren · Andre Gregory · Martha Plimpton · Jadrien Steele · Hilary Gordon · Rebecca Gordon · Jason Alexander · Dick O´Neill · Alice Sneed
Soundtrack Maurice Jarre
Screenplay Paul Schrader · Paul Theroux
Cinematography John Seale
Original title The Mosquito Coast
6.2
8K votes (FilmAffinity)
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