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The River
Why this pick
Like The Mosquito Coast, it puts a family’s ideals and endurance under pressure from an unforgiving natural world, with escalating hardship and a tactile, elemental sense of place.
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MOVIE1986 1h 57m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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The Razor's Edge
Why this pick
It shares the restless rejection of conventional Western life and the search for a more meaningful existence, approached as an intimate, spiritually driven journey.
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Why this pick
Another sweeping, morally uneasy rainforest drama where outsiders attempt to impose visions of salvation and progress on a world they do not understand.
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The New World
Why this pick
Its immersive landscape imagery and troubled encounter between idealism, family, and an unfamiliar environment echo the searching, unstable dream of escape in The Mosquito Coast.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Harrison Ford
Allie Fox
Helen Mirren
Mother Fox
River Phoenix
Charlie Fox
Jadrien Steele
Jerry Fox
Jason Alexander
Hardware Clerk
Dick O'Neill
Mr. Polski
Tiger Haynes
Mr. Semper
William Newman
Captain Smalls