The Mosquito Coast
“He went too far.”
DramaAdventure
Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to Belize. In the jungle, he tries with mad determination to create a utopian community with disastrous results.
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A chillingly earnest descent into one man's radical idealism. It's a visually lush, yet increasingly tense, exploration of a family's unraveling as they chase a dangerous dream in a hostile paradise.
intenseunsettlingidealisticfrustratedcautionarysteadyadventure dramacharacter studytropical settinglate-80s filmmakingidealismutopiafamilydisillusionmentnature
paradisebased on novel or bookidealismexitgovernanceidealisthondurasnatureemigrant
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