Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey (1988) Movie Overview

Gorillas in the Mist is a 1988 American drama film which tells the true-life story of naturalist Dian Fossey and her work in Rwanda with Mountain Gorillas. The screenplay was adapted by Anna Hamilton Phelan from articles by Alex Shoumatoff and Harold T. P. Hayes and a story by Phelan and Tab Murphy. The original music score was composed by Maurice Jarre. The movie was directed by Michael Apted and the cinematography was by John Seale. The movie stars Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris and John Omirah Miluwi. It was nominated for five Academy Awards – Best Actress in a Leading Role (Sigourney Weaver), Best Film Editing, Best Music, Original Score and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium – and won the Golden Globe Awards for Weaver’s performance and Jarre’s score while being nominated for Best Picture. A Kentucky woman, Dian Fossey, is inspired by an anthropologist Louis Leakey 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 Rwandan jungle. She becomes so preoccupied with her vocation that she loses the opportunity of a romance with… Source

• Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey Movie Details
• Director: Michael Apted
• Tagline: In a land of beauty, wonder and danger, she would follow a dream, fall in love and risk her life to save the mountain gorillas from extinction.
• Country: USA
• Run Time: 129 min
• Genre: Biography , Drama

• Cast Overview
• Sigourney Weaver as Dian Fossey
• Bryan Brown as Bob Campbell
• Julie Harris as Roz Carr
• John Omirah Miluwi as Sembagare
• Iain Cuthbertson as Dr. Louis Leakey
• Constantin Alexandrov as Van Veeten

Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey Movie Details from Imdb

Sigourney Weaver stars as Dian Fossey, in this true story about Fossey’s study of gorillas, and her efforts to stop the decimation of the endangered apes. Written by Ray Hamel {hamel@primate.wisc.edu}… Source

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