Congo Page #6

Synopsis: A megalomaniac 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 powerful laser communications transmitters (or is it laser weapons?). When contact is lost with his son and the team, his sometime daughter- in-law is sent after them. She is a former CIA operative and, accompanied by gee-whiz gadgetry and a few eccentric characters (including a mercenary, a researcher with a talking gorilla, and a a nutty Indiana-Jones-type looking for King Solomon's Mines), sets out to rescue her former fiancé. What they all discover is that often what we most want turns out to be the source of our downfall.
Director(s): Frank Marshall
Production: Paramount Home Video
  2 wins & 11 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.1
Metacritic:
22
Rotten Tomatoes:
23%
PG-13
Year:
1995
109 min
2,244 Views


Don't go this way. It's all caved in.

God, I'm so glad to see you.

- I was trying to find the mines...

- Be quiet. Got any flares, Kahega?

Yeah!

- What's making my eyes burn?

- Sulfur fumes.

Let's hope there's another way out of here.

Careful.

- What the hell...?

- It's the mines!

"We are watching you." It's the trainers

talking. The teacher is watching you.

Dead teachers.

Look.

Yes, yes, yes. I knew it was true!

The city of Zinj, the diamonds...

Every word of it was absolutely true.

I'd leave those alone.

- Any other way out of here?

- Not that I've noticed.

Help me. Fill up everything.

- You've got to get me out of here!

- Take a number.

- But we're going to be rich!

- ls that a way out?

Maybe.

Look out!

- Let's go.

- Stay close together.

- What is it?

- It's a geode. A giant diamond.

- They cut him off. Kahega!

- Check if there's a way out back there.

Kahega!

Jeffrey...

Charlie!

Charlie!

- It's him?

- It's him.

Come on.

- Is there a way out back there?

- No, nothing.

- We're almost out of rounds.

- Buy me two minutes.

Let me try.

Aah!

Ugly gorillas. Ugly. Go away.

They don't know what to make of it.

- Amy.

- Mother. Mother.

- Peter hug Amy.

- Maternal instinct, long may she reign.

- What are you doing?

- What am I doing? I'll tell you.

- We're getting out.

- What about them?

Put them on

the endangered species list.

Come on, Monroe. Let's go! Move!

- What the hell is that?

- The latest thing in communication.

- Climb!

- Up here.

- Go! Go!

- Come on.

Come on!

Come on, girl. Come on!

GO, Amy!

Keep going!

- Unh.

- Come on, come on.

Wait!

- Where are they?

- I don't know.

Hang on!

Watch out!

- Go, Amy!

- Hurry!

Just hurry! Come on!

- Come on!

- You can do it!

Keep moving.

Head for higher ground.

Keep going, Amy!

Should be a big yellow case

with a red stripe on that plane.

It's a balloon. I'll get the transmitter.

Amy!

Amy!

- How close is the border?

- Not far.

This is Karen Ross, 81452.

That is KR 81452.

Houston, Travis, do you read?

KR 81452.

Houston, Travis, do you read?

81452, that is KR 81452.

Houston, Travis, do you read?

- Karen, is that you?

- It's me, Travis.

I thought I'd lost you.

I sent another expedition.

- Did you get it?

- I have bad news. Charles was killed.

Did you get the diamond? Did you?

- Yes.

- Good girl.

Do you remember when I told you

that if I ever knew you sent me here...

for some diamond,

and not for Charlie, I'd make you sorry?

Karen, of course I'm upset.

- But what's done is done. I could...

- I know. You need a new cash machine.

What would happen to the satellite...

if I put its phone number in the laser

and pulled the trigger?

The chip from the transmitter's

got the satellite's number.

It's a 12,000 channel chip.

If you put it through the diamond... Karen!

This is for you, Charlie.

No!

Amy!

There you are.

Amy, you saved me.

It's okay.

Thank you.

I love you, too.

Mother?

Oh, I see. It's Africa. It's your mother.

Amy, where did you go?

Good gorillas? What good gorillas?

Handsome fella.

Amy...

Look at that.

ls that Amy with the...?

The silverback. So she's...

I see. I see.

She's home.

- Will she be all right?

- They know what to do.

It's us I'm worried about.

- We've got to go. Come on.

- Bye, Amy.

- Peter, would you do me a favor?

- What?

Would you throw this away for me.

You sure?

Ouch.

- There's a wind.

- I hope it blows us someplace good.

Me too.

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John Patrick Shanley

John Patrick Shanley is an American playwright, screenwriter, and theatre and film director. His play Doubt: A Parable won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as the 2005 Tony Award for Best Play. more…

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