The Mosquito Coast
Rated: PG
Starring: River Phoenix, Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren
Summary: This is the story of the Fox family lead by Allie (Harrison), an inventor. He becomes disgusted with all the materialism in the United States and decides to make a fresh start in South America with the idea of staying close to nature and avoiding industrialization.
River plays Charlie, Allie's son, extremely well. He loves his father, but he has to sit there and watch him go crazy.Harrison plays his role so well, it's sometimes scary to watch him!
Comments:
+This movie is pretty good.
- This movie is almost impossible to find in video stores, it took me forever to find it!
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"Everything we need is here. Right here. We can live simply: gardening, beach combing. I'm a changed man, mother. No more chemicals or poisons. If what you want isn't washed up on this beach, you probably don't need it." -Allie Fox.
<>It's hard not to see the parallels between the character's lives in this film and River's own childhood.
<>In this film, River met future girlfriend, Martha Plimpton, for the first time, they took an instant disliking to each other.
<>River really enjoyed filming this film in Belize, he liked going to the rainforest.
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