Congo
- Original title
- Congo
- Year
- 1995
- Running time
- 102 min.
- Country
United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- John Patrick Shanley. Novel: Michael Crichton
- Cast
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- Dylan Walsh
- Laura Linney
- Ernie Hudson
- Grant Heslov
- Tim Curry
- Joe Don Baker
- Mary Ellen Trainor
- Carolyn Seymour
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
- Bruce Campbell
- Lola Noh
- Misty Rosas
- Stuart Pankin
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Adventure. Action. Sci-Fi. Fantasy | Treasure Hunters. Africa. Apes
- Movie Groups
- Michael Crichton Adaptations
- Synopsis
- An expedition to a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa unexpectedly brings primatologist Peter Elliot and Travicom Project Supervisor Karen Ross to a place where human greed and the laws of nature have gone berserk. Unlikely partners, Peter is the guardian of Amy, a remarkable gorilla he wants to return to the wild, while Karen has been sent inland to retrieve rare diamonds needed for new communications technology. In a search for the legendary lost city of Zinj and its fabled diamonds, they are accompanied by their guide Monroe Kelly, Peter's colleague Richard and philanthropist Herkermer Homolka. The expedition discovers that in the Congo, they are the endangered species.
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- Awards
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1995: 7 Nominations for Razzie Awards, including Worst Picture, Director and Screenplay1995: Saturn Awards (Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films): 3 nominations
- Critics' reviews
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"As in "Arachnophobia", director Frank Marshall can't decide whether he's making a thriller or a laff-it-up lark."
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"The result is not a movie that is very good, exactly, but it's entertaining and funny"
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"I don't know the novel, but judging from the script by Crichton and John Patrick Shanley, this must be scraping the bottom of the Crichton barrel"
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"Not only have bothersome plot changes been made, but the entire tone of the book has been transformed from tension to tongue-in-cheek with dismal results."
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"What begins as mildly intriguing stuff with some genuinely unsettling moments, quickly melts into a plot so confusing that it almost begins to look as though the editor was taking some mind-altering substance"
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