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Synopsis: During a nightly Porsche ride with his doting rascal Xan, white South African farmer Peter finds and adopts an orphaned cheetah cub, dubbed Duma (just Swahili for cheetah). It becomes the boy's inseparable playmate, even taking it to bed. Peter made clear from the start that the cheetah should be returned to the wild before its full adulthood. But the father is stricken down with a disease just before the cheetah could be returned. Xan's mother sells the farm and moves in with a city aunt. The cheetah escapes, but finds Xan at school, where the new boy is bullied. He decides to run away to the mountains with Duma. On the way they face countless perils, which courage, Xan's intelligence and Duma's instinct overcome.
Director(s): Carroll Ballard
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
82
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%
PG
Year:
2005
100 min
$810,666
Website
378 Views


- What?

Honey, we're making some changes.

Like what?

I have to lease the farm.

We'll still live in the house, won't we?

No, we're going to the city...

...to live with Aunt Gwen for a while.

I need to get a job.

What about Duma?

Duma will get a new home as well.

A big preserve where he'll have

lots of room to run around.

Xan, I have to take care of us.

- And the only way I can do that is if we...

- That's not what Dad wanted.

Xan!

Xan, your father and I talked about this.

It's the only thing we can do.

It's the only thing that makes sense.

I know this is scary.

I know it won't be easy.

We can do this if we stick together, Xan.

Thanks for having us, Gwen.

No worries.

The man from the reserve

will be here in a day or two.

Xan, wait.

All you have to do today is look

around and get the lay of the land.

Those kids don't know

anything you don't know.

You want to be a winner?

You gotta have passion, passion, fire!

Gentlemen, our day is made.

So, what have we got here? Have we

got winners, or have we got losers?

- Winners!

- Let me hear it again. Winners or losers?

Winners!

Right.

Bombardment.

One hit, and you're out.

Hello!

I'm going to go pick up Xan.

No worries. He's lovely.

Bye-bye.

- This incredible offer!

Look how lovely and creamy...

I tought I taw a puttytat.

Oh, boy.

Hello, breakfast.

Doggy!

"There are many theories about how

the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids.

Some people think they used slaves

or unknown machines.

I think they used water.

They could have dug canals...

...then loaded the huge,

heavy stone blocks using ropes."

Excuse me, young man...

...where are you going?

- Out there.

Nobody leaves my room

without my permission.

- "The Egyptians..."

- Fire drill!

Exit by row! Orderly, please!

Duma?

Duma?

You in here?

Who's Duma?

Is that your boyfriend?

Give me that.

Hey, that's mine!

That? That's very nice.

My father gave it to me.

And you are going to give it to me

or pay me to let you keep it.

Run!

Good job.

Come on, Duma.

Hey, kid! Get down!

This is outrageous.

Xan!

Come, boy. Come.

Come on. Let's get out of here.

Come on.

We have to go far.

Go home.

Like Dad said.

We started here...

...and went up here.

That must be the Salt Pans.

So...

...we've got a lot of map to go.

Should we keep going?

Yeah, that's what I think too.

It had to happen sooner or later.

But I was hoping for later.

Do you even know what "wild" means?

Yeah, I thought so.

Hey.

What do you think you're doing?

What are you doing?

Do you hear me?

I am going south.

Do you have a problem with that?

Yeah.

We're going west.

"We're"?

You and who else?

My buddy and I.

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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