Congo (1995)
Director:
Frank Marshall
Tagline:
« There are the thing from another world that fates other worse than death. »
Actors:
Dr. Karen Ross
Dr. Peter Elliot
Captain Monroe Kelly
Herkermer Homolka
Richard
Rating:
(52’899 votes)
(52’899 votes)
Quotes:
« Captain Wanta: [Homolka is eating a cake] Mr. Homolka?
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« Herkermer Homolka: Yes?
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« Captain Wanta: Stop eating my sesame cake.
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[Homolka pauses in confusion]
« Captain Wanta: [shouting angrily] STOP EATING MY SESAME CAKE!
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[Homolka spits out the cake]
« Captain Wanta: What are you doing in my country, bag of shit?
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« Herkermer Homolka: Captain, please, I only wish to explore and discover…
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« Captain Wanta: This fellow
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« Captain Wanta: [pokes Homolka's face with a stick] is a big. Bag. Of. Shit.
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« Captain Wanta: [to Monroe] You should shake this RAT from off your neck. He owes money to everyone everywhere he goes. I will ask you to wait outside Mr. Homolka!
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« Monroe: I'm your great white hunter for this trip, though I happen to be black.
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« Monroe: They just blew up the president's car.
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« Eddie: That was the president's car? Did they get him?
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« Monroe: That's the bad news: no, they didn't.
»
Trailer:
Congo
Runtime:109 minutes
Plots:
When an expedition to the African Congo ends in disaster, a new team is assembled to find out what went wrong.
A megalomaniacal C.E.O. sends his son into the dangerous African Congo on a quest for a source of diamonds large enough and pure enough to function as powerful laser communications transmitters (or is it laser weapons?). When contact is lost with his son and the team, his sometime daughter-in-law is sent after them. She is a former C.I.A. operative and, accompanied by gee-whiz gadgetry and a few eccentric characters (including a mercenary, a researcher with a talking gorilla, and a nutty Indiana-Jones-type looking for King Solomon’s Mines), sets out to rescue her former fiancé. What they all discover is that often what we most want turns out to be the source of our downfall.
In the Congo, Charles Travis (Bruce Campbell) is testing a communication system by laser with his former fiancée Dr. Karen Ross (Laura Linney) for the TraviCom network. Charles is the son of the millionaire R.B. Travis (Joe Don Baker), who owns the TraviCom and is Karen’s employer. Charles and his friend Jeffrey Weems (Taylor Nichols) find the ruins of a lost city, but are somehow killed. Meanwhile, their camp is completely destroyed and then the camera is shut down by a creature. Travis discloses to Karen that his son was actually trying to find a rare blue diamond in the Congo and sends her to look for him. Meanwhile, Dr. Peter Elliot (Dylan Walsh) and his assistant Richard (Grant Heslov) are testing communication with the gorilla Amy (Misty Rosas), and they decide to take her back to the Congo, since the animal seems to miss her birthplace. However, they have funding issues, but Romanian philanthropist Herkermer Homolka (Tim Curry) offers to financially assist them. In the airport, Karen provides more money and joins the expedition. In the politically unstable Africa, they meet experienced guide Captain Munroe Kelly (Ernie Hudson), who bribes Captain Wanta (Delroy Lindo), to let them go. Further, he discloses that Homolka’s real intention is to find the Lost City of Zinj. Then they embark in a plane in the beginning of a dangerous adventure in the Congo.
