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  2. Theroux wrote the novel while living in London. Although he is rumored to have based the main character, Allie Fox, on himself, he denied this in an interview for Atlantic Unbound, saying he based the character on a number of people, including Pap, Huck Finn's father. [4]

    • Paul Theroux
    • 1981
  3. Apr 30, 2021 · Is The Mosquito Coast Based on a True Story? No, ‘The Mosquito Coast‘ is not based on a true story. The show is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by travel writer Paul Theroux.

  4. The Mosquito Coast is a 1986 American drama film directed by Peter Weir and starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Andre Gregory, and River Phoenix. It is based on the 1981 novel by Paul Theroux. The film tells the story of a family that leaves the United States and tries to find a happier and simpler life in the jungles of Central America.

  5. May 11, 2021 · The novel The Mosquito Coast tells the story of a brilliant, self-regarding, but also paranoid inventor and idealist named Allie Fox, who, disillusioned by an America he sees as gridlocked ...

  6. Jan 1, 1981 · In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life.

  7. Apr 23, 2021 · In the Apple TV+ series “The Mosquito Coast,” based on the 1981 novel by Paul Theroux, left, his nephew Justin Theroux plays a disillusioned, egomaniacal patriarch with a mysterious past.