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Overall Rank: 4994
Average Rating: 2.6/4
# of Ratings: 69
Theatrical Release Date: 12/01/1986
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Weir
Actors: Harrison Ford, River Phoenix, Helen Mirren , Conrad Roberts, Dick O'Neill, Jason Alexander
Plot: A crazy inventor invents a refrigeration system that doesn't need electricity. He is shunned by his neighbors so he packs up and takes his family to a remote location in Central America to start a new.
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2.5/4
Yojimbo - wrote on 01/05/2013
A box office flop, but this handsomely shot drama focusing on an obsessive idealist who drags his family into the rainforest to start a new life is intelligent and well played by Ford at his most charismatic.
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3/4
dukeakasmudge - wrote on 11/21/2011
The Mosquito Coast is an underated movie that I never heard of until it came on 1 of the movie channel's, I got to watch it & I was hooked from the start.I read a couple reviews saying this is Harrison Ford's best or most interesting peformance.I'm not a fan of Ford's at all but it's true.I think this is 1 of the very few roles of his that I didn't find boring & actually liked.A VERY good movie that makes me want to go out & read the book
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3/4
goodfellamike - wrote on 06/24/2008
Harrison Ford gives one of his most complex, deeply-felt performances in this bleak drama of a family's survival, both of the elements and their increasingly delusional father. A minor gem both artistically and emotionally, though Ford's character is even worse in the book. Final Grade: B+
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