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14/07/2005

BBC One - The Mosquito Coast

Adventure about an idealist who uproots his family to a remote Caribbean island.

Startling adventure about an idealist who uproots his family to a remote Caribbean island, where he sets about creating a Utopia. Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren star.

Adventure about an idealist who uproots his family to a remote Caribbean island, away from the consumerism which he perceives to be choking America. He sets about creating a Utopia in the jungle by bringing ice to the natives and uses his genius for making gadgets to enhance their primitive lifestyle. But he also alienates his long-suffering family, and his enterprise proves fatally flawed. Based on the novel by Paul Theroux.

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