Gorillas in the Mist [Blu-ray]

Director: Michael Apted Michael Apted

Overview

Gorillas in the Mist is based on the autobiographical 1983 book by naturalist Dian Fossey. Before the book could be brought before the cameras, Fossey had been mysteriously killed; her death provides a logical, if somewhat ghoulish climax to the film. A Kentucky girl, Fossey (Sigourney Weaver) is inspired by famed anthropologist Louis Leakey (Iain Cuthbertson) to devote her life to the study of primates. Traveling into deepest Africa, Fossey becomes fascinated with the lives and habits of the rare mountain gorillas of the Ugandan wilderness. Studying them at close quarters, Fossey develops a means of communicating with the gorillas, and in so doing becomes obsessed with the beasts' well-being. She is so devoted to "her" mountain that she loses the opportunity for a romance with a National Geographic photographer (Bryan Brown). Appalled by the poaching of the gorillas for their skins, Fossey complains to the Ugandan government, which dismisses her by explaining that poaching is the only means by which some of the Ugandan natives can themselves survive. She refuses to accept this, and becomes a militant animal-rights activist, burning down the poachers' villages and even staging a mock execution of one of the offenders.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/09/2021
UPC:	0683904635167
Original Release:	1988
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Universal
Language:	English
Time:	2:10:00
Sales rank:	40,580

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Sigourney Weaver	Actor
Bryan Brown	Actor
Julie Harris	Actor
John Omirah Miluwi	Actor
Iain Cuthbertson	Actor
Constantin Alexandrov	Actor
Waigwa Wachira	Actor
Iain Glen	Actor
David Lansbury	Actor
Maggie O'Neill	Actor
Konga Mbandu	Actor
Michael J. Reynolds	Actor
Gordon Masten	Actor
Peter Nduati	Actor
Helen Fraser	Actor
John Alexander	Mime Artist
Peter Elliott	Mime Artist
Maurice Jarre	Composer

Technical Credits

Anna Hamilton Phelan

Tab Murphy

Michael Apted	Director
Anna Hamilton Phelan	Screenwriter
Terence Clegg	Producer
Arnold Glimcher	Producer
Judy Kessler	Producer
Robert Nixon	Producer
Peter Guber	Executive Producer
Rick Baker	Special Effects
Peter Handford	Sound Mixer
David Harris	Special Effects
Jon Peters	Executive Producer
Tab Murphy	Screenwriter