Harrison Ford delivers an arguably career-best performance as Allie Fox, an idealist inventor disillusioned by consumerism who uproots his family, including his wife (Helen Mirren) and eldest son Charlie (River Phoenix), to the jungle of Central America to create a new utopia far removed from his perceived deterioration of America. Allie’s hubris proves to be catastrophic for the Fox family and the Indigenous people they have attempted to control in Weir’s unapologetic comment on the arrogance of man.