The Mosquito Coast [videorecording] / Saul Zaentz Company presents a Jerome Hellman production ; screenplay by Paul Schrader ; produced by Jerome Hellman ; directed by Peter Weir.
Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix, Conrad Roberts, Andre Gregory, Martha Plimpton, Dick O'Neil. Widescreen or standard versions. Originally released as a motion picture in 1986. Special features include: interactive menus ; scene selection ; theatrical trailers. From the novel by Paul Theroux.
Summary:
Allie Fox is fed up. Angered by an America that "buys junk, sells junk, eats junk," and a world whose nuclear doomsday clock is always two minutes away from midnight, the brilliant inventor leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles to carve out a new society.
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