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“Goodbye America, have a nice day!” Harrison Ford declared in Peter Weir’s 1986
The Mosquito Coast.
Based on Paul Theroux’s novel, the film centred around stubborn inventor Allie Fox uprooting his family from Massachusetts to the jungles of Central America leading to a slow descent into madness…
Now Justin Theroux, Paul Theroux’s nephew, undertakes the same role in a new 10 part series for Apple TV+. Whilst it differs markedly from the film, it stands on its own and fairly successfully at that.
Fox may still be trying to patent his ice-from-fire invention to little success but he’s not exactly the harmless boffin he once was. He bans his kids Charlie (Gabriel Bateman) and Dina (Logan Polish) from having technology: phones, TV, gaming, while wife Margot (Melissa George) is kept estranged from her parents, for reasons which will become clearer.