Gorillas in the Mist with Sigourney Weaver: DVD Cover

    Gorillas in the Mist Director: Michael Apted Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris, John Omirah Miluwi

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    • DVD Release Date: 04/13/1999
    • Original Release: 1988
    • Rating: Rated PG13

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    Side #1 -- Widescreen
    0. Chapter List
    1. Main Titles [3:09]
    2. What About Me? [1:26]
    3. A Woman Alone [3:43]
    4. Gorilla Trackers [1:47]
    5. A Civil War [6:06]
    6. Letters to Leakey [3:34]
    7. The Red Witch [3:37]
    8. The Photographer [4:04]
    9. With the Gorillas [2:30]
    10. Lovers [5:37]
    11. The Witch's Wrath [1:21]
    12. Gifts from Nairobi [4:01]
    13. Goodbye Forever [3:03]
    14. Five Years Later [5:09]
    15. Death & Justice [1:57]
    16. Digit's Pride [6:46]
    17. Death in the Night [5:53]
    18. Epilogue; Titles [1:15]

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    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 (Ian Cuthbertson) to devote her life to the study of primates. Travelling 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. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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    March 13, 2008: Despite the requisite Hollywood cliches, this is a great film. Dian Fossey didn't know what she was getting into when she volunteered to go to Africa, working for Dr. Louis Leakey in taking a census of the endangered Mountain Gorillas. She didn't realise she was expected to work alone, in a remote mountain hut, and in a country torn by civil war... But she came to love the subjects of her study so much, that nothing could prize her from the mountain, not even the (human) man she eventually fell in love with. "When you look deep into a gorilla's eyes," she wrote, "your life is changed forever." The blacks thought she was a witch, due to her reddish hair and fierce glance (captured well by actress Sigourney Weaver, although the real Dian was apparently a bit more shy than Sigourney's character). But this witchlike image actually helped to scare the poachers off. And Dian's work helped prevent the gorillas from becoming extinct. But unfortunately she was murdered by cowardly scum...black poachers in the pay of white animal traffickers. Too often the best are cut down before their life's work is finished... One other thing to note is the incredible beauty of the landscapes, filmed on location in the mountains of Rwanda. The result is a worthy tribute to this wildlife warrior, who is now most probably in Asgard, feasting at Freyja's very table (with a gorilla at her side, no doubt).