The Mosquito Coast (1986) (SPOILERS) How different things might have been, had The Mosquito Coast been a hit. Its failure evidently chastened Harrison Ford, who was still opining half a decade later that it was his only film that hadn’t made its money back. For a spell there, with two phenomenal franchises to his name and his star power entrenched by the success of Witness , he felt confident enough to mix things up a little, to put his name to the Peter Weir project that had fallen through due to lack of funding/Jack Nicholson, to work with an out-of-favour European director (in Frantic for Polanski, now even more out of favour), try his hand as the supporting romantic interest in an unfamiliar genre ( Working Girl ) and work with one of the ‘70s most feted directors in a did-he-didn’t-he Jagged Edge -esque courtroom drama ( Presumed Innocent , where more column inches ended up being devoted to his severe haircut than the quality of the picture). At least a couple of these pai