The Mosquito Coast

The Mosquito Coast

He never bargained for what he found.

1986119 min6.3 / 10

A morally complex drama about idealism colliding with reality, as an inventor's utopian vision in the jungle becomes increasingly destructive to his family.

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

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