This week we discuss two films from acclaimed Australian director Peter Weir released in the 1980s.

The first is The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), which gives a semi-fictionalised insight into some of the events leading up to the attempted communist coup in Indonesia in 1965.

The second is The Mosquito Coast (1986), based on the novel by travel writer Paul Theroux, which follows Harrison Ford as a troubled genius inventor who leads his family into peril in the jungles of Central America.

Timestamps

The Year of Living Dangerously (00:11:20)

The Mosquito Coast (00:50:45)

Links 

Justwatch.com – streaming and rental links

https://www.justwatch.com

Whores of Leith

https://youtu.be/l3hE0FASvEc