AN APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES FROM APPLE TV+ STARRING JUSTIN THEROUX,
SEASON 2 STREAMING NOW
"An Impressive and disturbing vision of the American
psyche."--Washington Post Book World
From legendary writer Paul Theroux, an international bestseller that
is a spellbinding adventure story of an American family that rejects its
homeland and tries to find a happier life in the jungles of Central
America.
The paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox uproots his family from
their New England farm to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to
build a civilization better than the one they've left. An individualist,
Allie sees modern America as wasteful, immoral, and messy. Fleeing from
materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life.
Told by fourteen-year-old Charlie Fox, who observes his father with a
mixture of love, astonishment, and ultimately horror, The Mosquito
Coast is a twisted Swiss Family Robinson or an ironic take on
Robinson Crusoe. For as Allie becomes ever more lost to reality, this
utopian experiment takes a dark turn as his obsessions lead the family
toward unimaginable danger.