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The Mosquito Coast

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

Director

Peter Weir

Year

Genre

adventure, drama, thriller

Box Office

$14,302,779

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures

Awards

1 win & 3 nominations

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My father was an inventor - The Mosquito Coast

My father was an inventor

They don't have meat - The Mosquito Coast

They don't have meat

And have a nice day - The Mosquito Coast

And have a nice day

I think about you when I go to the bathroom - The Mosquito Coast

I think about you when I go to the bathroom

Everything we need is right here - The Mosquito Coast

Everything we need is right here

Right now someone in America is pushing an electric squeezer - The Mosquito Coast

Right now someone in America is pushing an electric squeezer

It's an absolute sin to accept the decadence of obsolescence - The Mosquito Coast

It's an absolute sin to accept the decadence of...

We eat when we're not hungry - The Mosquito Coast

We eat when we're not hungry

You don't dare take a walk for fear of someone sticking a knife in your ribs - The Mosquito Coast

You don't dare take a walk for fear of someone sticking...

Double digit inflation and a 2 00 loaf of bread - The Mosquito Coast

Double digit inflation and a 2 00 loaf of bread

Strictly speaking - The Mosquito Coast

Strictly speaking

Father often talked of things being revealed - The Mosquito Coast

Father often talked of things being revealed

Ice is civilization - The Mosquito Coast

Ice is civilization

What're you looking at - The Mosquito Coast

What're you looking at

Everything we need is here - The Mosquito Coast

Everything we need is here

If it's on a map - The Mosquito Coast

If it's on a map

Father was fond of saying that in the end Robinson Crusoe went back home - The Mosquito Coast

Father was fond of saying that in the end Robinson Crusoe...

We could go downstream to Haddy's - The Mosquito Coast

We could go downstream to Haddy's

I'm not going back into Hatfield again - The Mosquito Coast

I'm not going back into Hatfield again

Nature is crooked - The Mosquito Coast

Nature is crooked

Now he was gone and I wasn't afraid to love him anymore - The Mosquito Coast

Now he was gone and I wasn't afraid to love him anymore

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

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Director: Peter Weir

Writer: Paul Theroux, Paul Schrader

Production: Warner Bros. Pictures

Genre: adventure, drama, thriller

Year: 1986

MetaScore: 49/100

ImdbRating: 6.6

BoxOffice: $14,302,779

Released: 26 Nov 1986

Awards: 1 win & 3 nominations

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