Does anyone know the name to this book/movie about a father looking for utopia?

Question

I'm Look for the title of a book that is also made into a movie about a father this is slightly crazy and is seeking utopia and moved his family to a remote village to build utopia, and whoever comes and disrupts his utopia he murders them. The ending is that his son killed him.

(some details may not be right, I read the book 10 yrs ago)

Thx so much please help.

Answer 1

Hi!

You may try the forum links below , I hope you find your book - good luck .

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http://whatsthatbook.com/

http://forums.abebooks.com/abesleuthcom

http://community.livejournal.com/whatwas...

Answer 2

"The Mosquito Coast: by Paul Theroux

http://www.amazon.com/Mosquito-Coast-Pau...

"In a breathtaking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquit... story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. But his utopian experiment takes a dark turn when his obsessions lead the family toward unimaginable danger."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquit...

"Maverick inventor Allie Fox finds little support for his inventions in the United States. He is a highly open-minded man, disgusted by American culture, economic structure, and class division. In an act of extreme rebellion, he decides to move to the Mosquito Coast of Honduras with his wife and four children. There he purchases a township in the jungle, from a businessman in a local bar. After many difficulties, the Fox family finally arrives at the small town of Jeronimo, the little village Allie had previously purchased. Allie Fox then starts to create his own anti-establishment paradise in Honduras, and lives there with the indigenous Zambus and Maywit family.

Under Allie's authoritarian leadership, his family, the Zambus and the Maywits manage to build a comfortable settlement in the jungle. The small village includes an ice factory (dubbed the "Fat Boy", one of the most brilliant among Allie Fox' inventions), providing useful cooling for the settlement and the entire region. During several occasions Allie enters into conflict with Reverend Spellgood, a missionary who wishes to spread the word of Christianity to his township. One day three armed men demand to stay at the settlement. The threat and loss of freedom is countered by Allie making a bedroom for the men inside the ice factory, trapping them inside and attempting to kill them using the machine's rapid freezing process. However, the three guerrillas start shooting from inside, causing an explosion which not only kills them, but also destroys the whole settlement and pollutes the river.

Although the other family members want to return to the U.S., Allie insists in starting a new life again, at a new location. He lies to them, saying the U.S. has been destroyed in a nuclear war, which some of the children believe. On occasion, family members plan to sneak away to leave, or even consider killing Allie. As Mr. Haddy, a local man and friend of the family, had warned, during the rain season the water level gets high and their new settlement is also destroyed.

On the move again, the Fox family arrives at a mission church and small township. Suffering from mental anguish, Allie sets the church on fire, after which the missionary with whom he had come into conflict earlier shoots him. On the way home, travelling downstream by boat, he is paralyzed and dying. The family lies, telling him that they are going upstream, as he wants. They are in reality going downstream towards the ocean and back to America.

The book is written from the viewpoint of the eldest son, Charlie"