The Mosquito Coast (1986)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.5/10   

Director:

Peter Weir

Escritores:

Paul Theroux (novel)
Paul Schrader (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

26 noviembre 1986 (USA)

Género:

Aventura | Drama | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

Allie Fox followed his dream to the Mosquito Coast. He planned a paradise. He created a Hell.

Plot:

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...

Plot Keywords:

Central America | Obsession | Inventor | Jungle | Ice Factory

Premios:

Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 1 win & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Excellently crafted - painful to watch

Reparto

Harrison Ford	...	Allie Fox
Helen Mirren	...	Mother Fox
River Phoenix	...	Charlie Fox
Conrad Roberts	...	Mr. Haddy
Andre Gregory	...	Reverend Spellgood
Martha Plimpton	...	Emily Spellgood
Dick O'Neill	...	Mr. Polski
Jadrien Steele	...	Jerry Fox
Michael Rogers	...	Francis Lungley
Hilary Gordon	...	April Fox
Rebecca Gordon	...	Clover Fox
Jason Alexander	...	Hardware Clerk
Alice Heffernan-Sneed	...	Mrs. Polski (as Alice Sneed)
Tiger Haynes	...	Mr. Semper
William Newman	...	Captain Smalls

También conocida como:

La costa Mosquito (Argentina) [es]
La costa de los Mosquitos (Spain) [es]

Duración:

117 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés | Español

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Iceland:10 | South Korea:Todo | Netherlands:6 | Australia:PG | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-8 | Norway:12 | Spain:18 | Sweden:11 | UK:PG | USA:PG | West Germany:12 | Singapore:PG

Locaciones de Filmación:

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Compañía:

The Saul Zaentz Company

Trivialidades:

Actors Martha Plimpton and 'River Phoenix' disliked each other while filming this movie. However, while filming the movie "Running On Empty" they became a couple.

Errores:

Continuidad: While Allie Fox and his family are being lashed by violent winds and near horizontal rain during a hurricane a couple of palm trees in the background are standing perfectly still.

Citas:

Allie: The people in New York live on pet food and they'll kill you for a quarter. You don't dare take a walk for fear of someone sticking a knife in your ribs. Think about it. If you stay home, they come in through the windows! Ten year old homicidal maniacs on every street corner. They go to school! Hah! They go to school!

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Film Geek (2005)

Banda de Sonido:

Sing Alleluia

Excellently crafted - painful to watch

Some of the other reviews summarize this pretty well. The Mosquito Coast details flawlessly the grotesque decomposition of a good and true man. Harrison Ford's Allie is driven insane by his own intelligence and inability to control his ego. Even more remarkable and disquieting is the fact that this is based on a true story. In some ways, Allie reminds me of Dr. Mobius from Forbidden Planet. But the demons Allie conjures up are far more grotesque and deadly than anything from even Mobius' warped imagination. I conclude that this is a true piece of art and science -- magnificently crafted from beginning to end -- and I will NEVER voluntarily watch it again.