Congo (film)
Congo is a 1995 movie, based on Michael Crichton's novel Congo.
Tagline: "Where you are the Endangered Species."
A megalomaniacal C.E.O. sends his son into the dangerous African Congo; on a quest for a source of diamonds large enough and pure enough to function as a powerful laser communications transmitter. (Allegedly powerful enough to "punch a hole through the moon.") When contact is lost with his son and the team, his sometime daughter-in-law (Laura Linney) is sent after them.
Linney is a former CIA operative accompanied by gee-whiz gadgetry and a few eccentric characters, including a take charge mercenary (Ernie Hudson), a researcher with a talking gorilla (Dylan Walsh), and a treasure-hunter looking for King Solomon's Mines (Tim Curry).
She sets out to rescue her former fiancee. What they all discover is that often what we most want turns out to be the source of our downfall.
The film was directed by Frank Marshall and the screenplay was written by John Patrick Shanley. The music was composed by Jerry Goldsmith.
Cast
Dylan Walsh Laura Linney Tim Curry Ernie Hudson Grant Heslov Joe Don Baker
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