Mosquito Coast
1986, PG, 117 min.
Directed by Peter Weir, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix, Andre Gregory, Martha Plimpton, Butterfly McQueen, Jason Alexander.

The Texas Union Council presents a semester-long series co-sponsored each week by a different TUC committee; this week’s program is co-sponsored by the Environmental Committee. Mosquito Coast was adapted for the screen by Paul Schrader from Paul Theroux’s novel. Harrison Ford plays an obsessive inventor who moves his family to the remote jungle of Central America. Along the way to creating his utopia, he makes the fatal error of playing god.

This article appears in October 8 • 1999.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.