| Gorillas In The Mist [1988] | ![Gorillas In The Mist [1988]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HMX5Q9KYL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Michael Apted
Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris, John Omirah Miluwi, Iain Cuthbertson
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 1325
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Running Time: 124 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 7321900118545
ASIN: B00007M5Z2
Theatrical Release Date: September 23, 1988
Release Date: June 1, 2006
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Sigourney Weaver more than earned her Oscar nomination for Best Actress in Gorillas in the Mist, dominating every frame of Michael Apted's biopic about primatologist Dian Fossey. Tenderly mothering an orphaned gorilla infant or terrorising an African poacher with a staged lynching, the statuesque star is never less than fiercely focused, a glamorous warrior for animal rights. As the amateur scientist who researched and spotlighted Rwanda's endangered mountain gorillas in National Geographic, Weaver is the passionate heart that keeps an otherwise flaccid film alive. Unfortunately, the film's stodgy script and direction simply document Fossey's magnificent obsession, offering no insight into what lonely impulse of the soul led this extraordinary woman to climb up an African mountain to bond so strongly with gorillas. Cardboard characters include an eternally smiling, sexless African soulmate (John Omirah Miluwi), a perfect boyfriend (Bryan Brown) who has to be dumped in favour of gorilla-love, and stereotypical villains. Still, the African scenery is spectacular, and who can resist the cross-species thrill when the huge dark hand of Digit, Fossey's favourite, first rests in her outstretched palm? Gorillas in the Mist will please those who savour Sigourney Weaver's Amazonian fervour and the pure fire of her physical and spiritual passion--and harbour a slightly misanthropic fondness for liaisons between beauties and beasts. --Kathleen Murphy
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splendid monkey movie August 20, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Me and monkeys do not normally mix. Ever since that fateful trip to the zooalogical park in 1986, I have been careful to give monkeys and all primates a wide berth. We had been driving through the park in our new BMW convertible. My father had insisted on having the roof down, claiming it would give us better views of the animals. That was in hindsight a terrible mistake.
We had just passed through the rhino paddock without incident when we came slowly up to the monkey enclosure. My father thought it would be a good idea to take photos, although I advised him against it. Within moments of snapping the monkeys though, a gibbon swung down from a nearby tree, clambered onto the car without warning and snatched the camera and my mother's Gucci handbag. Father went ape (if you will excuse the pun) and tried chasing the gibbon. He reappeared a few minutes later (my father that is, not the monkey) covered in scratch marks and had blood on his shirt. He hadn't managed to get the camera or the bag back but he said he did get to touch the monkey.
Suffice to say, this experience left me somewhat traumatised and I did not go near monkeys until I went to see this film...
Gorillas In The Mist is an enchanting, breathtaking film. Based on real life Gorillaologist Diane Fossie, who went to study Gorillas in the jungle and ultimately ending up falling for one of the males in the pack.
Sigourney Weaver (pronounced Sin-your-ree Wevver takes on the lead role and is a tour de force. She is very comfortable with the animals onscreen and clearly has a passion for them.
I was a little disappointed that the film had a lack of mist (as per the title) and to discover Sigourney's character dies at the end. Her death scene was poorly executed. It is rumoured that in the original director's cut, her character was thrown from a cliff ledge by an irate orang utan. Which would have made for a far more compelling ending. Alas, the film is pleasing and worth a gander.
Sigourney Weaver shines February 6, 2005
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Sigourney Weaver was nominated for an Oscar for this film, and should have won it. This is one of the finest portayals of passion bordering on obsession in film history. Weaver portrays Dian Fossey, in a story that sticks pretty close to the facts that were then known. Fossey, who was an amateur naturalist (as were Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel), persuades (almost coerces) world-renowned archaeologist Louis Leakey into sponsoring her on an expedition to find, count, and study the mountain gorillas of Rwanda in central Africa. Thus begins Fossey's crusade to study and protect these gentle giants. She has to oppose farmers who want the land for farming, government bureaucrats who don't understand the needs of the gorillas, and poachers, and she will do ANYTHING to protect the gorillas, including staging a mock lynching of a poacher and going along with/feeding the natives' belief that she is a witch. Fossey ended up being murdered, and the movie implies that the poachers did it.Sigourney Weavers captures the passion bordering on obsession of Fossey who, along with Jane Goodall and Birutai Galdecas-Brind'Amour (I know I butchered the spelling there, and apologize) added to our knowledge of primates as no one else has. These three devoted women lived side-by-side with their subjects (mountain gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans, respectively), and completely changed our understanding of the animals they studied. Hurray for them and for Weaver and this film for documenting and portraying this passion!
A sympathetic portrait May 8, 2004
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I feel mixed about biopics as I'm always aware that no film maker could ever make an accurate film about somebody's life. It would be interesting to see how the film compared with the facts....About the film itself: The film starts with Dian asking for a job studying the mountain gorillas. It then quickly moves on to her arrival and adjustment to working in the jungle. After some searching she comes across her first gorillas. Shortly afterwards she's expelled to Rwanda. From then on the film slows down and allows us to see her as she integrates herself into a group of gorillas. As the gorillas accept her she feels more and more kinship with them and her fight against poachers gets more and more extreme. The film manages to show the other side of the issues concerned, mainly through the voices of the Information Minister and her guide, and still give us an affectionate portrait. You do need to be in serious mood to appreciate it.
 Excellent December 2, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Very realistic and moving portale of the real story of Diane Fossy and the Grorillas of Rwanda and Uganda, especially interesting as these countries are back in the news with the current fighting threateding the Gorillas yet again.
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