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"The " reunites Harrison Ford and Peter Weir after "Witness," for which they both received Academy Award nominations. Ford's performance may make him a dark horse for such a nomination in this long-anticipated film however, Weir is unlikely to receive similar acco ....

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.... they're just plain annoying. On and on, a Hawaiian-shirted Ford spouts the evils of double-digit inflation and plastic consumerism. He's so fanatic about it, he's uprooted his family from their pastoral home home and lugged them off to a primitive jungle coast. He's filled with cockeyed, romantic notions on building a jungle utopia for himself and his family. In this decision, as in all other decisions, the family, including his dutiful supportive wife (Helen Mirren), two sons (River Phoenix, Conrad Roberts) and twin daughers (Hilary Gordon, Rebecca Gordon) don't have any choice. Despite his sometimes brilliant and idiosyncratic observations on s ....