Mosquito Coast

In the movie Mosquito Coast, an American Inventor/Father takes a ship from America to a jungle somewhere in the region of Mosquito in South America. He brings his wife and four sons with him. It is not a vacation though, its a permanent residence he is trying to set up. He claims that America has grown corrupt and greedy that pretty soon a nuclear war will happen soon to wipe the U.S.A off the map. His family goes through many hardships during their stay, but he alone remains ignorant of whats happening to his family, pursing his dream with sacrifice to his family's well being. In comparison to the Poisonwood Bible, a book by Barbara Kingsolver, this movie is quite similar in telling a story of a plight of a family and the ignorance of a father trying to forge a new life in a foreign place that has no need of their alien customs and thoughts. The movie is also, in a way, different too though. It is different, in a big way, because of the reasons each of the Fathers have for going to a new exotic, in hospitable (for their families) place to live for a while. The Father in the movie Mosquito Coast wanted to get himself and his family away from the corruption of the U.S. and thought he would help his family by doing this. He was selfish in this thought because he didn't care what his boys or his wife thought about his plan as he pursued his own dream only for himself. Nathan Price from the Poisonwood Bible goes to the Congo because he believes he can enlighten and civilize the natives which would help him cope with his past sin (which isn't really a sin to the rest of us) of being the only person to survive from his platoon in WWII by accident. Also, he doesn't even care, from the start, about whether this experience will help his family or not. In a way though, these two fathers are similar too because of the way they don't care what the family's opinion is on their plan.