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The film also stars Susan Sarandon and Elizabeth Perkins. Weaver proves adaptability in gorillas in the Mist by Chuck Vinch staff writer Sigourney Weaver rapidly taking Over from meryl Streep As America s most adaptable actress is positively feverish in gorillas in the Mist an ambitious film version of the life of Dian Fossey. For the uninitiated Fossey was an american who convinced famed anthropologist Louis Leakey to let her conduct a population count of the endangered Mountain gorillas of Rwanda in 1966. It was a one shot project but somehow Fossey found reasons to stay working her Way into the heart of the Gorilla tribe. Gradually she just abandoned the civilized world. Along the Way she made enemies both in and outside the local government those interested not in saving the animals but in providing baby gorillas to zoos or Selling the Heads hands and feet of adults As Coffee table souvenirs. Fossey stayed in Africa fighting the poachers with every resource at her disposal until her murder in 1985. The crime is still unsolved. But she is credited with staving off extinction for the species. The film drags a bit until it gets Weaver into the Jungle and up close to the gorillas which Are the movie s True stars. To see the glimmers of intelligence understanding and emotion beneath the heavy brows of our mammalian cousins touches some deep primeval chord within All of us. When it concentrates on Fossey s Field research the film shines. It s too bad that director Michael Apted allows it to degenerate into Hollywood Kitsch near the end when it portrays what is purported to be Fossey s slow demoralized mental disintegration As her gorillas Are decimated. First Fossey becomes Lover to National geographic photographer Bob Campbell played by aussie Bryan Brown last seen juggling bottles in cocktail. The affair is fact Campbell shot documentary footage of the gorillas that helped build support for Fossey s work. But Here the relationship is too contrived and takes up too much time As when Campbell drags a steel tub up the Mountain so he and Fossey can take Bubble Baths together. The second problem also has roots in fact but it s no less bothersome. As Fossey feels the inevitable Drain of constantly losing ground to the poachers she begins to take her rage out on Campbell on the poachers and then on some Young research assistants. The characterization is accurate Fossey definitely had a dark Side but it still hurts the film because it s in such jarring contrast to the scenes of her Field work. Script contrivances aside Weaver does a Superb Job breathing life into a difficult part and should be in the running for an Oscar nomination. Anyone who is interested in learning More about Fossey should buy woman in the mists by renowned Canadian naturalist and environmentalist author Farley Mowatt. Gorillas in the Mist earns a solid three stars. Stripes Magazine 23
