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Gorillas in the Mist is a 1988 American biographical drama film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay by Anna Hamilton Phelan and a story by Phelan and Tab Murphy. The film is based a book of the same name by Dian Fossey and the article by Harold T. P. Hayes.
Oct 7, 1988 · A movie based on the life of Dian Fossey, a scientist who studied and protected the mountain gorillas in Africa. Starring Sigourney Weaver, the film shows Fossey's challenges, achievements and controversies in her work and personal life.
- (29K)
- Biography, Drama
- Michael Apted
- 1988-10-07
Her bestselling book Gorillas in the Mist was praised by Nikolaas Tinbergen, the Dutch ethologist and ornithologist who won the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Her book remains the best-selling book about gorillas.
Roger Ebert criticizes the film for not showing the emotional transformation of Dian Fossey, the real-life primatologist who studied mountain gorillas in Africa. He praises the special effects and the scenes of Fossey with the gorillas, but finds the romance and the mystery of her death unsatisfactory.
A Kentucky woman, Dian Fossey is inspired by anthropologist Louis Leakey to devote her life to the study of primates. Travelling into deepest Africa, Fossey becomes fascinated with the lives and habits of the rare mountain gorillas of the Rwandan jungle.
Midwesterner Fossey (Sigourney Weaver) leaves the United States for Africa, where she studies the gorillas of Rwanda and Uganda. As Fossey develops a bond with the animals, she also becomes wary...
- (19)
- Drama
- PG-13
Gorillas In The Mist - Official® Trailer [HD] Release Date: September 23, 1988 Nominated for five Academy Awards, Gorillas in the Mist is the inspiring true story of young ...more.
- 2 min
- 22K
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