Gorillas in the Mist

1988

PG-13

2h 9m

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7.0/10

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The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.

Directors

Michael Apted

Writers

Anna Hamilton Phelan(screenplay by)

Anna Hamilton Phelan(story by)

Tab Murphy(story by)

Stars

Sigourney Weaver

Bryan Brown

Julie Harris

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Dian Fossey

Bob Campbell

Roz Carr

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Dr. Louis Leakey

Constantin Alexandrov

Claude Van Veeten

Mukara

Brendan

Larry

Kim

Rushemba

Howard Dowd

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Directors

Michael Apted

Writers

Anna Hamilton Phelan(screenplay by)

Anna Hamilton Phelan(story by)

Tab Murphy(story by)

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"Gorillas in the Mist" is a very worthwhile film and it perfectly highlights Dian Fossey's occasionally groundbreaking work. She actually managed to integrate herself into the mountain gorilla community - this results in some superb shots of the mountain gorilla in its natural habitat and it is genuinely difficult to differentiate between what could possibly be mechanical special effects and the real great apes - and it soon begins to seem as though her gradually all consuming work supersedes many other aspects of her life (she even begins to refer to the gorillas and the mountain they live on as her own) and she willingly sacrifices a blossoming romance with the photographer Bob Campbell in order to stay on the mountain with the gorillas to study them. Dian Fossey achieved recognition through her work and this film ends with the fact the gorilla population continues to multiply as the enduring spirit of her accomplishments lives on, but this coda is juxtaposed with the sobering knowledge that her untimely death remains a mystery.

kevin201906 Sep, 2024