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Dominican Rep. The Mosquito Coast
8,927
Adventure. Drama
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.
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"It is hard to believe that a film as beautiful as The Mosquito Coast can also be so bleak, but therein lies its power and undoing" | ||
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"A courageous and serious film that explores the limits of the mythic American virtues of persistence, inventiveness, and rugged individualism." | ||
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"Peter Weir's 1986 adaptation of Paul Theroux's best-selling novel is literally that - an adaptation without much character of its own" | ||
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"The Mosquito Coast is the only movie you'll see this season that has too much ambition for its own good - its subject, really, is nothing less than the American experience" | ||
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"The movie has been directed and acted so well, in fact, that almost all my questions have to do with the script: Why was the hero made so uncompromisingly hateful?" |
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