Gorillas in the mist [videorecording] : the story of Dian Fossey / Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures present a Guber-Peter production ; screenplay by Anna Hamilton Phelan ; story by Anna Hamilton Phelan and Tab Murphy ; produced by Arnold Glimcher, Terence Clegg ; directed by Michael Apted.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 20421 | UniversalLanguage: engfre Original language: English Publication details: Universal City, CA : Universal, 1999, c1988.Description: 1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0783233523
- 9780783233529
- Subtitle on disc and container: Adventure of Dian Fossey
- Story of Dian Fossey
- Director of photography, John Seale ; editef by Stuart Baird ; original music by Maurice Jarre.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Based on the work by Dian Fossey, and the article by Harold T.P. Hayes.
Bonus material: featurette ; production notes ; cast and filmmakers information ; theatrical trailer.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1988.
Widescreen.
Director of photography, John Seale ; editef by Stuart Baird ; original music by Maurice Jarre.
Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris.
Based on the true story of young anthropologist Dian Fossey who travels to the African mountains to study the rare gorillas.
Rated PG-13.
DVD; Dolby digital, surround.
Closed-captioned.
Includes English and French language tracks, with optional English subtitles.