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23/09/1988 Drama, History 2h 9m
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At the far ends of the earth she found a reason to live, and a cause to fight for.

Overview

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

  1. Michael Apted

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Sigourney Weaver

    Dian Fossey

  2. Bryan Brown

    Bob Campbell

  3. Julie Harris

    Roz Carr

  4. John Omirah Miluwi

    Sembagare

  5. Iain Cuthbertson

    Dr. Louis Leakey

  6. Konstantin Aleksandrov

    Claude Van Veeten

  7. Waigwa Wachira

    Mukara

  8. Iain Glen

    Brendan

  9. David Lansbury

    Larry

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Reviews

A review by kevin2019
Written by kevin2019 on 2024-09-06
"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...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$22,000,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

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