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    • Fantasy Records
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    • Al Bendich
    • Frank Noonan
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  • THE FILMS
    • Goya's Ghosts
    • The English Patient
    • At Play in the Fields of the Lord
    • The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    • The Mosquito Coast
    • Amadeus
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  • LICENSING

T H E   M O S Q U I T O   C O A S T

The Saul Zaentz Company   /   A Jerome Hellman Production
Released November 1986


Based on Paul Theroux's best-selling novel, The Mosquito Coast is the adventure story of how a family's quest for paradise becomes a terrifying fight for survival. Allie Fox (Harrison Ford) is possessed by a singular dream: to escape with his family to a pure, untainted world, a jungle utopia far from the corrupting influences of the modern world. A fiercely independent man, Allie is fed up with the America of fast food, television, pollution, phony evangelicism and crime. Packing up his wife, two sons and twin daughters, he boards a freighter bound for the Mosquito Coast. But he finds he can’t escape his personality and the inclinations that he bears with him into the jungle. Directed by Peter Weir, The Mosquito Coast was produced by Academy Award-winner Jerome Hellman (Midnight Cowboy). Saul Zaentz was executive producer.

CREDITS
Directed by Peter Weir
Produced by Jerome Hellman
Executive Producer Saul Zaentz
Screenplay by Paul Schrader
Adapted from the Novel by Paul Theroux
Music by Maurice Jarre
Cinematography by John Seale, A.S.C., A.C.S.
Film Editing by Thom Noble
CAST
Harrison Ford 
 /  Allie Fox
Helen Mirren  /  Mother Fox
River Phoenix  
/  Charlie Fox
Conrad Roberts 
/  Mr. Haddy
Andre Gregory 
/  Reverend Spellgood
Martha Plimpton 
/  Emily Spellgood




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