The Mosquito Coast quotes
An eccentric and dogmatic inventor sells his house and takes his family to Central America to build a utopia in the middle of the jungle. Conflicts with his family, a local preacher, and with nature are only small obstacles to his obsession. Based on the novel by Paul Theroux.
Director: Peter Weir
Writer: Paul Theroux (novel), Paul Schrader (screenplay)
Production: Warner Brothers
Year: 1986
MetaScore: 49/100
ImdbRating: 6.6
BoxOffice: $14,302,779
Released: 26 Nov 1986
Awards: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 1 win & 1 nomination.
18 Clips & Quotes
00:16
I think about you when I go to the bathroom
00:56
We eat when we're not hungry
01:01
Nature is crooked
00:40
Everything we need is here
01:42
My father was an inventor
00:26
Strictly speaking
00:22
What're you looking at
00:47
I'm not going back into Hatfield again
00:38
Now he was gone and I wasn't afraid to love him anymore
00:43
It's an absolute sin to accept the decadence of obsolescence
00:11
Ice is civilization
01:05
You don't dare take a walk for fear of someone sticking a...
02:17
Look at this place
02:17
They don't have meat
00:10
If it's on a map
00:24
We could go downstream to Haddy's
00:14
And have a nice day
00:14
Everything we need is right here
Cast
Allie Fox - Harrison Ford
Mother - Helen Mirren
Charlie - River Phoenix
Jerry - Jadrien Steele
April - Hilary Gordon
Clover - Rebecca Gordon
Clerk - Jason Alexander
Mr. Polski - Dick O'Neill
Mrs. Polski - Alice Heffernan-Sneed
Mr. Semper - Tiger Haynes
Captain Smalls - William Newman
Reverend Spellgood - Andre Gregory
Mrs. Spellgood - Melanie Boland
Emily Spellgood - Martha Plimpton
Convert 1 - Raymond Clare
Man at Bar - Emory King
Mr. Haddy - Conrad Roberts
Francis Lungley - Michael Rogers
Mr. Maywit - Tony Vega Sr.
Mrs. Maywit - Aurora Clavel
Ma Kennywick - Butterfly McQueen
Bucky - Michael Opoku
Drainy - Adolpho Salguero
Leon - Rafael Cho
Alice - Sofia Coc
Veryl - Margarita Coc
Dixon - Wilfred Peters
Peaselee - Luis Palacio
Mercenary - Juan Antonio Llanes
Mercenary - Abel Woolrich
Mercenary - Jorge Zepeda