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The Mosquito Coast (ISBN 0140060898) is a 1982 novel by Paul Theroux and a 1986 film based on the book. Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren star in the film directed by Peter Weir.

Plot

Maverick inventor Allie Fox finds little support for his inventions in the United States. Because of this, he moves to the Mosquito Coast in Honduras, dragging his wife and four children with him.

Under Allie's authoritarian leadership the family and employees build with hard work a settlement in the jungle. It includes an ice factory, providing useful cooling for the settlement and the region. One day three armed men demand to stay at the settlement. The threat and loss of freedom is countered by making a bedroom for the men in the ice factory, locking it and cooling the room to freeze them to death. However, they start shooting from inside, causing a fire which not only kills them, but also destroys the whole settlement and pollutes the river.

Although the other family members want to return to the U.S., Allie insists in starting again at a new location. He lies saying the U.S. has been destroyed in a nuclear war, which some of the children believe.

On occasion, family members plan to sneak away to leave, or even consider killing Allie.

As a local black man had warned, the water level gets high, and the new settlement is also destroyed.

On the move again, they arrive at a mission church. Allie sets it on fire, after which the missionary shoots him. On the way home, travelling downstream by boat, he dies, while the family lies telling him that they are going upstream, as he wants.

Tagline: Allie Fox followed his dream to the Mosquito Coast. He planned a paradise. He created a Hell

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