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 drags his family (wife and four kids) into the Honduran jungle in a bid to start from scratch and create...
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