1988·Drama·2h 9m
7.0
★
The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
Directed by Michael Apted
photographer
africa
rwanda
gorilla
menace
mountain
congo
biography
poacher
murder
tracker
jungle
based on memoir or autobiography
sympathy
extinction
anthropologist
primatologist
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Cast
Sigourney Weaver
Dian Fossey
Bryan Brown
Bob Campbell
Julie Harris
Roz Carr
John Omirah Miluwi
Sembagare
Iain Cuthbertson
Dr. Louis Leakey
Konstantin Aleksandrov
Claude Van Veeten
Iain Glen
Brendan
David Lansbury
Larry
Maggie O'Neill
Kim
Michael J. Reynolds
Howard Dowd
Gordon Masten
Photographer
Crew
Michael Apted
Director
Anna Hamilton Phelan
Screenplay
Maurice Jarre
Original Music Composer
Stuart Baird
Editor
John Seale
Director of Photography
Peter Guber
Executive Producer
Jon Peters
Executive Producer
Rick Baker
Makeup Artist
Catherine Leterrier
Costume Design
Anna Hamilton Phelan
Story
Tab Murphy
Story
Tim Lewis
Assistant Director
Popular Reviews
109 reviews
Irina
9.0★ · 05/22/26
Sigourney on the screen cures my depression, anxiety and everything else.
She is so Ripley coded in that movie😭
And the damn heartbreaking ending…😭
She is so Ripley coded in that movie😭
And the damn heartbreaking ending…😭
Sigourney on the screen cures my depression, anxiety and everything else.
She is so Ripley coded in that movie😭
And the damn heartbreaking ending…😭
She is so Ripley coded in that movie😭
And the damn heartbreaking ending…😭
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veronika
4.0★ · 07/03/26
my elementary teacher made my class watch this film in third grade. I had nightmares about it for a week after watching it. Not my best movie experience.
my elementary teacher made my class watch this film in third grade. I had nightmares about it for a week after watching it. Not my best movie experience.
IsaiahWFilms
7.0★ · 06/01/26
Sigourney Weaver AND gorillas
What more could you ask for
What more could you ask for
Sigourney Weaver AND gorillas
What more could you ask for
What more could you ask for
Zoe Kusiak
1.0★ · 06/01/26
dumbest movie ever?? people always feel the need to frame animals as softer and innocent than they are so that they deserve saving, but they’re animals??? not everything should have to serve humans. also the gorillas are treated as beautiful angels while all the africans are evil unless they do everything the white people ask. TRASH.
dumbest movie ever?? people always feel the need to frame animals as softer and innocent than they are so that they deserve saving, but they’re animals??? not everything should have to serve humans. also the gorillas are treated as beautiful angels while all the africans are evil unless they do everything the white people ask. TRASH.
Nick Hernandez
8.0★ · 04/27/26
Final line of Film: “Her death remains a mystery.”
Streaming service: Cineby
Acting: 9/10
Script: 8/10
Cinematography: 8/10
Movie title said: No
Fuck poachers
Streaming service: Cineby
Acting: 9/10
Script: 8/10
Cinematography: 8/10
Movie title said: No
Fuck poachers
Final line of Film: “Her death remains a mystery.”
Streaming service: Cineby
Acting: 9/10
Script: 8/10
Cinematography: 8/10
Movie title said: No
Fuck poachers
Streaming service: Cineby
Acting: 9/10
Script: 8/10
Cinematography: 8/10
Movie title said: No
Fuck poachers