Congo (film)
Congo is a 1995 American science fiction action-adventure film based on the 1980 novel by Michael Crichton. It was directed by Frank Marshall and stars Laura Linney, Dylan Walsh, Ernie Hudson, Grant Heslov, Joe Don Baker and Tim Curry. The film was released on June 9, 1995, by Paramount Pictures and tells the story of an expedition team and a mountain gorilla owned by one of its members who go to the Congo jungles to find a missing expedition and the ruins of an ancient civilizations where diamonds might be located while encountering the gray gorillas that lurk near there.
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| Directed by | Frank Marshall |
| Screenplay by | John Patrick Shanley |
| Based on | Congo by Michael Crichton |
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| Cinematography | Allen Daviau |
| Edited by | Anne V. Coates |
| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
Production company | The Kennedy/Marshall Company |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 108 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $50 million |
| Box office | $152 million |
It received negative reviews, but performed better than expected at the box office.
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