Congo

1995 · 104 min · dir. Frank Marshall

Congo is a 1995 American science fiction action-adventure film directed by Frank Marshall from a screenplay by John Patrick Shanley, based on the 1980 novel by Michael Crichton. It stars Laura Linney, Dylan Walsh, Ernie Hudson, Grant Heslov, Joe Don Baker and Tim Curry. The film tells the story of an expedition team and a mountain gorilla owned by one of its members who go to the Congolian rainforests to find a missing expedition and the ruins of an ancient civilization where diamonds might be located while encountering the undiscovered and violent gorilla species that lurks near there. Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.