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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 13, 1999
- Originally Released: 1988
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Sigourney Weaver | |
Performer: | Bryan Brown, Julie Harris, Iain Cuthbertson, John Omirah Miluwi & Iain Glen | |
Directed by | Michael Apted | |
Edited by | Stuart Baird | |
Screenplay by | Anna Hamilton Phelan | |
Composition by | Maurice Jarre | |
Subject: | Dian Fossey | |
Director of Photography: | John Seale | |
Executive Production by | Jon Peters & Peter Guber |
Entertainment Reviews:
...With a sense of beauty and wonderment the film illuminates an extraordinary and unprecedented communication between a human being and the world's largest primates....The film has an absolutely stunning performance from Sigourney Weaver...
Los Angeles Times
Heartbreaking... a must-see.
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StaciWilson.com
Rating: 3/5 --
Gripping biopic has violence, animals in peril.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: 3/5 --
This is a movie for masochists.
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eFilmCritic.com
Rating: 3/4 --
There were moments when I felt a touch of awe. Those moments, which are genuine, make the movie worth seeing.
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Chicago Sun-Times
...[Weaver acts with] intelligent, muscular resilience...and abandon....Engrossing...
New York Times
Sigourney Weaver gives an inspired performance as a woman who launches a crusade to save gorillas in Africa.
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Spirituality and Practice
Product Description:
Based on anthropologist Dian Fossey's autobiography, and an article by Harold T. P. Hayes, GORILLAS IN THE MIST is a portrait of the determined woman who will do anything to save the mountain gorillas that she studies, and for whose well-being she has a passionate commitment. In the process, she draws international attention to their declining population, yet her obsessive work to save them also eclipses her personal life and brings her into ruinous confrontation with relentless, impoverished poachers. At times recalling Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS, the film touches on both Fossey's nobility--and inhumanity. To capture her passion, and the sublime African landscape, director Michael Apted (known for his documentary series 7 UP in Britain) shot on location in Rwanda, where the anthropologist lived and worked. Sigourney Weaver, playing Fossey, gives an intense portrayal (garnering an Academy Award nomination) of the woman who almost singlehandedly reversed the extinction of the mountain gorillas in Africa.