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Gorillas in the Mist [a] is a 1988 American biographical drama film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay by Anna Hamilton Phelan and a story by Phelan and Tab Murphy. The film is based a book of the same name by Dian Fossey and the article by Harold T. P. Hayes. It stars Sigourney Weaver as naturalist Dian Fossey and Bryan Brown as ...
Oct 7, 1988 · A movie based on the life of Dian Fossey, a scientist who studied and protected the mountain gorillas in Africa. Starring Sigourney Weaver, the film shows Fossey's challenges, achievements and controversies in her work.
Her bestselling book Gorillas in the Mist was praised by Nikolaas Tinbergen, the Dutch ethologist and ornithologist who won the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Her book remains the best-selling book about gorillas.
Gorillas in the Mist is a memoir by American primatologist and conservationist Dian Fossey, published in 1983. The book begins with Fossey's early career as she began working with naturalist Louis Leakey and spans thirteen years of Fossey's research into the behavior and biology of mountain gorillas in Rwanda.
This film is an adaptation of wildlife expert Dian Fossey's autobiography. Midwesterner Fossey (Sigourney Weaver) leaves the United States for Africa, where she studies the gorillas of Rwanda and...
Release Date: September 23, 1988 Nominated for five Academy Awards, Gorillas in the Mist is the inspiring true story of young anthropologist Dian Fossey (Sigourney Weaver) who travels to Africa...
Jan 1, 2001 · One of the most important books ever written about our connection to the natural world, Gorillas in the Mist is the riveting account of Dian Fossey's thirteen years in a remote African rain forest with the greatest of the great apes.
