A 'Mosquito Coast' for the woke generation - Television
Follow May. 3, 2021 Anyone looking for a prime example of how the approach to adapting acclaimed novels has changed over the past 40 years should watch the film and TV versions of “The Mosquito Coast” back-to-back. Peter Weir’s 1986 film adaptation is slavishly loyal to Paul Theroux’s award-winning 1981 novel, offering a truncated but clear version of events that remains true to the original. It hits all of the book’s key plot points, as American inventor and iconoclast Allie Fox drag...
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