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Mosquito Coast

"The " reunites Harrison Ford and Peter Weir after "Witness," for which they both received Academy Award nominations. Ford's performance may make him a dark horse for such a nomination in this long-anticipated film however, Weir is unlikely to receive similar accolade. Best box-office prospects for this clamorous Warner Bros. release may be a few years down the road - whenever the country returns to a 60s-type, anti-establishment period. Right now, word of mouth will be poisonous.
Based on Paul Theroux's well-regarded 1982 novel, this film adaptation has brought to the screen some of the least appealing parts of the book's lead character, a brilliant but iconoclastic inventor. He rages ...

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uprooted his family from their pastoral home home and lugged them off to a primitive jungle coast. He's filled with cockeyed, romantic notions on building a jungle utopia for himself and his family.
In this decision, as in all other decisions, the family, including his dutiful supportive wife (Helen Mirren), two sons (River Phoenix, Conrad Roberts) and twin daughers (Hilary Gordon, Rebecca Gordon) don't have any choice. Despite his sometimes brilliant and idiosyncratic observations on society, Ford's a complete dolt with people. For him, the pulleys, ropes and levers he ingeniously rigs up for his numerous inventions are the stuff of life. He even talks of his machinery in anthropomorphic terms - the kidneys of the system, etc.

Although Schrader has pitched his lead character with the shrillest of tones, he has distilled with some distinction the high comic spirit of much of the novel. Ford's existential determination to build a gigantic ice machine within the bowels of a ...

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Added: 11/15/2004 09:16:19 AM
Category: English
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