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The Mosquito Coast (1986)

★ 6.3 · 538 ratings on TMDB

He never bargained for what he found.

The Mosquito Coast poster★ 6.3

An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia.

DirectorPeter Weir
CastAlice Heffernan-Sneed, Dick O'Neill, Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Hilary Gordon, Jadrien Steele
GenresAdventure, Drama
The emergence reading

The Mosquito Coast keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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