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A new TV adaptation of Paul Theroux’s novel takes the bones of the story and makes it an addled action-thriller

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. A non-conformist and inventor, Allie Fox moves his family to a remote spot in Central America where they can live outside of civilization and he can invent in peace. Things go awry, he turns increasingly delusional and it all ends badly. A so-so movie version was released in 1986. is totally, and especially tonally, a very different beast. It takes the bones of the plot and turns it into an anti-hero action thriller that moves at a breathless pace.

That’s the fun part. The meatier texture is there if you want to find it. The Mexico the Fox family uses as an escape hatch from the United States that their choleric dad hates, is obdurate and threatening. It is not what Allie Fox imagined and he and his family are obliged to think about how they have romanticized the inhospitable exotic.

 

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