Harrison Ford

Helen Mirren

River Phoenix

Conrad Roberts

Martha Plimpton

Andre Gregory

Dick O'Neill

Jadrien Steele

Michael Rogers

Hilary Gordon

Rebecca Gordon

Jason Alexander

Butterfly McQueen

Tiger Haynes

William Newman

John Seale

Peter Weir

Maurice Jarre

Jerome Hellman

Paul Schrader

Thom Noble

Steve E. Andrews

John H. Anderson

John Wingrove

Ken Weston

Reg Garside

Philip A. Patterson

Robin Alan Knight

Bruce Ericksen

Ross Erickson

Mark Egerton

Paul Theroux

Vic Armstrong

Saul Zaentz

Drama

Adventure

The Mosquito Coast

Warner Bros. Pictures

The Saul Zaentz Company

United States of America

**Disney for Anarchists**

Before there was a McConaissance there was a Harrisance, That's right, you heard right: Harrisance. Within a few years in the 1980's Harrison da Chicago lead what was arguably the greatest adventure movie ever mounted, and possibly the best science fiction movie ever launched. He was also featured in that adorable little _Star Wars_ trilogy. Not to mention a slew of fine movies like _Presumed Innocent_, _Frantic_, _the Fugitive_, and two thrillers as Jack Ryan. Among my favourite movies from the Harrisance period (if I keep saying it, it will be a thing) were two directed by Peter Weir, an Aussie who never met a cultural clash he didn't want to shoot. Weir directed a couple of American films and chose the right man to lead them. _Witness_ was well-liked and had a righteously tough Harrison cop defending the Amish. But in my opinion, _Mosquito Coast_ was better. Look at the headliners. Harrison Ford , Helen Mirren, River Pheonix, from a story by Paul Theroux, scripted by Paul (_Taxi Driver_, _Raging Bull_) Schrader. The jaded Film Critics at the time weren't exactly blown away by the movie's ambitious scope but liked the way Harrison could play an anti-hero. What's so anti about him? He was great! I wish he was my dad. I would have loved to go on an escapist adventure with a genius inventor father who had grand visions of erecting a new utopia in the forests of Belize by manufacturing ice in the tropics. Okay, maybe he went too far. Got a bit swollen-headed and delirious. Became the patriarchal tyrant he was running away from. But that was from the rage he felt when realizing that while (in the 1980's) he might be able to elude multinational greed, he can't escape human avarice. O the tragedy of humans

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