See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Gorillas in the Mist. Photos Top cast Edit. John Omirah Miluwi Sembagare as Sembagare. Iain Cuthbertson Dr. Louis Leakey as Dr. Louis Leakey. Waigwa Wachira Mukara as Mukara. Iain Glen Brendan as Brendan. David Lansbury Larry as Larry. Maggie O'Neill Kim as Kim. Konga Mbandu Rushemba as Rushemba. Michael J. Reynolds Howard Dowd as Howard Dowd. Gordon Masten Photographer as Photographer.
Peter Nduati Batwa chief as Batwa chief. Helen Fraser Mme. Van Vecten as Mme. Van Vecten. John Alexander Mime artist as Mime artist. Peter Elliott Mime artist as Mime artist.
Denise Cheshire Mime artist as Mime artist. Michael Apted. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. 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. She left everything she knew and entered a world few have ever seen. To save a wonderous creature from the cruelty of men, she went further than anyone dared.
Some say she went too far. Did you know Edit. Trivia As later stated by one of the costumers, the baby gorillas who interacted with humans were not gorillas, but chimpanzees who were made up in black-face and given peaked fur hats to more closely resemble gorillas. This is because the use of actual baby gorillas would have put the filmmakers in serious danger from the adult gorillas. Goofs Dian did not try to convince Leakey to send her to Africa, nor did she volunteer to remove her appendix, quite the opposite: In , Leakey contacted Fossey and urged her to study gorillas in the wild as an experiment.
At first Fossey was reluctant citing her lack of experience, but eventually agreed upon further coercion. We leave the theater feeling that when Fossey was buried in her beloved jungle, the third act of the movie was buried there, too. Fossey was a woman of average achievement and no particular scientific background, but she loved animals and she was deeply disturbed by reports that the mountain gorillas of central Africa were being threatened with extinction.
With absolute determination, she convinced Louis Leakey, the guru of African anthropologists, to allow her to man a jungle camp and conduct a census of the gorillas.
And over the years she grew into one of the great experts on these fearsome but manlike beasts, learning to imitate their behavior so well that they accepted her in their midst. Fossey's work was featured in the National Geographic and on TV documentaries. She became a romantic figure, out there almost alone in the wild, protecting "her" gorillas against poachers who sold gorilla hands to be made into ashtrays.
Then, in , she was found murdered in her camp, and as more came to be known about her there were many likely suspects. Fossey had grown fanatical about her animals, had all but waged war against the pygmy tribes that were killing them. She had alienated the trappers who procured animals for zoos. And she had made powerful enemies in a government that needed all the foreign currency it could find - and made lots of money off of gorillas. Who killed her? The movie does not say, and that's as it should be.
This is not a whodunit. But why did she become the ferocious and antisocial recluse of her later years, why did she prize her relationships with gorillas above those with humans, why did she choose to stay in the jungle rather than to join the man she loved? I can imagine good answers to all of these questions - I think the fate of Fossey was more or less inevitable, and admirable - but in the movie the transitions in her emotional state are made so abruptly that we become conscious of the story being told.
Fossey is played by Sigourney Weaver , who makes her passionate and private and has an exquisite tenderness and tact in her delicate scenes with wild animals. It is impossible to imagine a more appropriate choice for the role. But she grows away from us as the movie reaches its conclusion.
A woman we have come to know turns into a stranger, and even if that is what happened to Fossey - even if she did pull a cocoon of obsession around her - we deserve to see that happening, and to understand it. The screenplay simply presents it as an accomplished fact. There is also a rather canned feeling to the romance in the central scenes of the film, when a National Geographic photographer Bryan Brown turns up in the jungle, and the two people fall in love. He arrives, they become lovers, and then he tells her that he has an assignment on the other side of the world and he wants her to come along.
He cannot, he says, stay in the jungle forever; he has a job to do. She tells him she will not leave, and that, if he does, he need not ever return, or ever write. Was this argument not inevitable from the moment they first met? Did the photographer expect this woman to leave? Did she expect him to stay? They never really talk with one another, and so we're not sure.
The movie's best scenes involve her gradual acceptance by the gorillas. Here it is hard to say who should get the most credit: those who photographed real animals in the jungle or those who used special effects to create animals, and parts of animals, for particular shots.
I imagine that some of the closeups of a gorilla's hand, clasping Weaver's, were done with Rick Baker's special effects creations. I imagine some of the gorillas in the jungle are real, and some are men inside gorilla suits. But the work is done so seamlessly that I could never be sure.
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