A brilliant inventor leads his devoted wife and four children into the remote jungles of Central America to carve out a new society, but instead faces the ultimate test of survival.
"Raccontata dal figlio Charlie (Phoenix), la storia dell'inventore Allie Fox (Ford) che, disgustato dalla società dei consumi, porta la famiglia in mezzo alle giungle del Centroamerica. Si metterà contro missionari, indios e banditi, ma la sua illusione di onnipotenza è destinata a infrangersi contro la dura realtà."@it
"A brilliant inventor leads his devoted wife and four children into the remote jungles of Central America to carve out a new society, but instead faces the ultimate test of survival."@en
"Angered by the decline of American society, a brilliant inventor leads his family into the remote Central American jungles to carve out a new society."@en
"Ecoeuré par le spectacle d'une civilisation en déclin, Allie Fox, un inventeur, décide d'aller vivre avec sa famille dans un coin perdu d'Amérique centrale sur la côte de l'Atlantique. Il devient le chef d'un village qu'il dote d'une glacière géante. Son projet est mis en péril par l'intrusion de trois dangereux hors-la-loi dont il se débarrasse en les enfermant dans la glacière, ce qui entraìne la destruction du village. A la dérive sur le fleuve avec sa femme et ses enfants, Fox sombre dans une paranoïa dangereuse qui l'entraîne à attaquer l'oeuvre d'un missionnaire."
"Shows the adventures of a sociopathic inventor as he transplants his entire family to a Central American rain-forest with the fateful intention of creating an aboriginal utopia."@en
"A frustrated visionary packs up and leaves his Massachusetts farm, moving his family into the dark jungle of the Honduras, where he fails to notice the seeds of his downfall. A type of antidote to Robinson Crusoe."@en
"Drame d'aventures adapté du roman de Paul Théroux. Ecoeuré par une Amérique commercialisée et belliqueuse, un inventeur amène sa famille vivre dans la jungle d'Amérique centrale, au bord de l'Atlantique. Bientôt, il recrée une société dont il est le chef mégalomane et paranoïaque. Quand son village est manecé par des hors-la-loi, il met en péril son oeuvre utopique. Avec Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix, André Gregory, Jadrien Steele. Version doublée française."
"Brilliant inventor Allie Fox is fed up with America and moves his family to the remote jungles of Central America, to carve out a new society."
""Allie Fox ne trouve plus l'Amérique à sa hauteur, c'est un visionnaire, un inventeur maniaque et surdoué, l'idole de sa femme et ses enfants. Son pays est devenu un rêve avorté, un pays tombé aux mains de boutiquiers médiocres. Dès que l'occasion se présente, il quitte ce vieux monde pour le Honduras où il débarque avec toute sa famille en pleine jungle... Voilà un pays enfin à sa mesure..."
"An inventor, disillusioned by an America that "buys junk, sells junk, eats junk" and is always poised on the brink of nuclear disaster, uproots his family to build a utopia in the jungle of Central America."
"Allie Fox is fed up. Angered by an America that "buys junk, sells junk, eats junk," and a world whose nuclear doomsday clock is always two minutes away from midnight, the brilliant inventor leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles to carve out a new society."
"Allie Fox is fed up. Angered by an America that "buys junk, sells junk, eats junk," and a world whose nuclear doomsday clock is always two minutes away from midnight, the brilliant inventor leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles to carve out a new society."@en
""Allie Fox is fed up w ith an America that 'buys junk, sells junk, eats junk;' so with a mocking 'Goodbye, America! Have a nice day,' the brilliant inventor (nine patents, six pending) leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles of the Mosquito Coast to carve out a new society. ... An adventure about utopia gone haywire"--Videodisc sleeve."
"Raccontata dal figlio Charlie, la storia dell'inventore Allie Fox che, disgustato dalla società dei consumi, porta la famiglia in mezzo alle giungle del Centroamerica: convinto che "Dio ha lasciato il mondo incompleto e spetta all'uomo completarlo", si metterà contro missionari, indios e banditi, e andrà incontro alla catastrofe. (Mereghetti)."@it
""Allie Fox, inventeur maniaque et surdoué, ne trouve plus l'Amérique à sa hauteur : son pays n'est plus qu'un rêve avorté. Véritable visionnaire, il ne supporte plus la basse société de consommation dans laquelle il est contraint d'évoluer et décide de fuir ce vieux monde." [Source : jaquette]."
""Allie Fox is fed up with an America that 'buys junk, sells junk, eats junk;' so with a mocking 'Goodbye, America! Have a nice day, ' the brilliant inventor (nine patents, six pending) leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles of the Mosquito Coast to carve out a new society. ... An adventure about utopia gone haywire"--Videodisc sleeve."@en
"An eccentric and dogmatic inventor sells his house and takes his family to Central America to build an ice factory in the middle of the jungle. Conflicts with his family, a local preacher and with nature are only small obstacles to his obsession."@en
"Allie Fox is fed up with an America that buys junk, sells junk and eats junk - He leads his trusting wife and four young children into the remote jungles of Central America to carve out a new society."@en
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