The Mosquito Coast with Sean Fennessey

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2026

⏱️ 189 minutes

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Summary

We all have those moments where we just want to disengage from conventional society. We often yearn to go "off the grid." But, would we ever want to go to the Mosquito Coast? HELL NO. Sean Fennessey joins us to chat about Peter Weir's 1986 film that tests the limits of Harrison Ford's likability to the extent that Ben Hosley would describe it as "anti-smile." Allie Fox is a bad hang. The Mosquito Coast? GOOD MOVIE. Listen to Griffin and David on the Big Picture Watch Harrison Ford on Conan spoil Star Wars 7 The Great Railway Bazaar Read Roger Ebert’s review of Paul Blart Mall Cop Read Rembert Explains America: Burning Man Forever Listen to The A24 Podcast: A Bigger Canvas with Martin Scorsese & Joanna Hogg Dive into the Hogg-verse with Davis piece on Joanna Hogg Watch Ham Hat Sign up for Check Book, the Blank Check newsletter featuring even more “real nerdy shit” to feed your pop culture obsession. Dossier excerpts, film biz AND burger reports, and even more exclusive content you won’t want to miss out on. Join our Patreon for franchise commentaries and bonus episodes. Follow us @blankcheckpod on Twitter, Instagram, Threads and Facebook! Buy some real nerdy merch Connect with other Blankies on our Reddit or Discord For anything else, check out BlankCheckPod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Blank Jack with Griffin and David.
0:05.0	Black Jack with Griffin and David.
0:09.0	Don't know what to say or to expect.
0:13.0	All you need to know is that the name of the show is Black Jack.
0:19.0	Once I had believed in father
0:23.1	And the podcast had seemed small and old
0:26.1	Now he was gone
0:27.7	And I wasn't afraid to love him anymore
0:30.2	And the podcast seemed limitless
0:32.7	I mean yeah
0:34.1	I wasn't like oh Griffin better do this line
0:37.0	No last line of the film.
0:38.1	Now, I will say, the tagline for this film is extraordinary. I think potentially one of the best taglines we've ever covered. It's a good tagline. It's a good poster. It's a, you know, it's very interesting, very intriguing. Okay. Tell me the tagline. The tagline is,
0:52.5	Discoe sure be biting.
0:54.0	No, it's not like that.
0:54.9	As I said, one of the best taglines ever.
0:56.6	Itchy.
0:57.5	Ready to get Harrison Ford. This summer is getting itchy. Scratch, scratch. No, he says. The tagline is, how far should a man go to find his dream? Ali Fox went to the mosquito coast. Line break. He went too far. That fucking rules. Just to see this
1:18.0	poster where you're like, here's Harrison Ford, arguably the biggest movie star of that moment.
1:23.3	There's an article I read up when this film came out and people were pushing back against it,
1:26.9	where they called out that Harrison Ford starred in more of the highest grossing films than any other star in history.
1:33.9	Not just at that moment, he had a greater percentage of the all-time top 10,
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