Congo
Congo is a 1995 American science fiction action-adventure film directed by Frank Marshall from a screenplay by John Patrick Shanley, based on the 1980 novel by Michael Crichton. It stars Laura Linney, Dylan Walsh, Ernie Hudson, Grant Heslov, Joe Don Baker and Tim Curry. The film tells the story of an expedition team and a mountain gorilla owned by one of its members who go to the Congo jungles to find a missing expedition and the ruins of an ancient civilization where diamonds might be located while encountering the undiscovered and violent gorilla species that lurks near there.
Plot
Searching for rare blue diamonds that could enable a revolutionary communications laser, TraviCom employees Charles Travis and Jeffrey Weems discover the ruins of a lost city near a remote volcano in the Congo jungle. Karen Ross, Charles's ex-fiancée and a former CIA operative, and R.B. Travis, Charles's father and the CEO of TraviCom, lose contact with the team while tracking their progress at the company headquarters. A remote camera shows the camp destroyed and strewn with corpses, before a monstrous ape destroys the camera. Travis asks Karen to lead another expedition to the site.
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| author | John Patrick Shanley Michael Crichton |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Africa |
| director | Frank Marshall |
| editor | Anne V. Coates |
| genre | action adventure horror science fiction thriller |
| keywords | ape central intelligence agency cia collect congo jungle congolian rainforests draw egyptian hieroglyphs eye of providence hieroglyph kill lost city mountain gorilla native tribe primatologist primatology safari scream search sign language tanzania uganda volcano wound zaire |
| musicBy | Jerry Goldsmith |
| producer | Kathleen Kennedy Sam Mercer |
| productionCompany | The Kennedy/Marshall Company |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| theme | monster movie science fiction action science fiction horror |