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| Gorillas in the Mist | 
| Director: Michael Apted
Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris, John Omirah Miluwi, Iain Cuthbertson
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 8810
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Running Time: 130 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 4.9 x 0.6
MPN: 025192042126
ISBN: 0783233523
UPC: 025192042126
EAN: 9780783233529
ASIN: 0783233523
Theatrical Release Date: September 23, 1988
Release Date: April 13, 1999
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 Powerful April 8, 2000
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Sigourney Weaver is excellent in this movie. But to me it was an introduction to Dian Fossey, a woman with great courage, confiction and commitment. Some people say she was weird. To me I can only have the deepest respect for her. Without her there would be no Mountain Gorilla's anymore. It is time, long overdue, that people wake up. This movie reminded me what humans do in this world. Dian Fossey payed deerly for who she was. Get the movie and ask yourself what you can do.
 Sigourney Scores August 22, 1999
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Exciting true-life story of Dian Fossey, the American woman who fought to save the mountain gorillas of central Africa from extinction. The film makers faced considerable obstacles in reaching the remote area of Rwanda where Fossey worked and was originally planned to be made prior to Fossey's murder in 1985, but the film--directed by Michael Apted--is nonetheless so fluidly told that most of these limitations don't show on screen. Although the excellent on-location photography is essential to Gorillas' success, the film's greatest asset is Sigourney Weaver's bigger-than-life presence as Fossey. Weaver's tremendous physique--used so effectively in making her a match for the creatures of Alien series--allows her to hold her ground with the huge gorillas. Always a charismatic on film, Weaver meets the heroic demands of the film, whether confronting poachers, communicating with gorillas, mourning their loss, or even--in the least interesting aspect of the film--falling in love with Bryan Brown as the National Geographic photographer Bob Campbell. Probably no other American actress in the 1980s could have risen to this challenge as she did. The all-too seldom seen Julie Harris also has a small part as a Rwandan plantation owner and adds her own luminosity to her few scenes. Rick Baker ingeniously handled the film's make-up, mixing both made-up and real gorillas. As suggested above, the film does have a few drawbacks: much like the relationship between Meryl Streep and Robert Redford in 1985's Out of Africa, the romance between Weaver and Brown feels tacked on, and it is less interesting than her relationship to the gorillas. Also, Weaver's descent into seeming madness (which Weaver's unexplained coughing in the last section of the film suggests may have been prompted by her declining health) occurs suddenly in the sequence immediately following the end of her romance with Brown. I wonder how Weaver's charactermight have been developed at the end of the film had not Fossey's murder occurred while the film was still being planned: would the end of her romance with Brown have been the end of the film, with a conclusion emphasizing the courage of her decision? And, if so, is that why the final mad sequence occurs so suddenly?
I've seen most of her stuff. This is one of her best. June 1, 1999
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
A great, and moving film. If you don't have it and like Siggy, then get it.
Environmentally Aware Tear-Jerker April 5, 1999
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's been a few years since I've seen this film, but I will never forget the impact it had upon me. Dian's passion for her work is relatable to lots of people who love their jobs. She is independent and very aware of what she wants. Her relationship with the gorillas is the most substantial part of the movie, in my opinion. The audience grows to care for them just as she has and when their lives are threatened, the audience fears for them as well. This is worth the watch and is the movie where I first grew to admire Sigourney Weaver. She is a wonderful actress and it is evident in this riveting and emotional film.
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