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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
384 Views


Do you have any water?

Maybe.

What do you got?

The motorcycle.

I could give you a ride.

You are thirsty, yeah?

Hey, hey.

I did not say you could give some

to your animal.

There is not enough.

Does this thing work?

If you have gas.

Opuno Kjadi Ripkuna.

You?

Xan. Thanks for the water.

A bush baby. How did it get here?

Same as me.

Too many wrong turns.

Mashaka.

Troublemaker.

Do you know there's a big river?

It's maybe five days' walk from here.

But to get there we must have food.

So which one?

So which one what?

Which one we eat first?

You understand, for us to live...

...we must eat them.

Don't worry.

We have a few days before

we have to make our decision.

Explain to me this idea.

Get more wood.

You know, I don't like your cat

looking at me like this.

Where did you learn this, boy?

Where did you learn these ideas?

- My dad taught me.

- Your dad?

Wait for me, man.

Show me the plan...

What you are going to make, man?

- Put it up.

- I am.

- Holy smoker.

- Come on, hang on. Quickly.

- Let her go.

- We are doing it, Xan. We are doing it.

Hang on.

Holy smoke.

Xan, look.

Say goodbye, Xan.

Bye-bye, plane.

- Hello, river.

- To the right. To the right.

Oh, Xan. We are going to live.

- We need water.

- Don't worry.

We find it.

I told you so.

This is your big chance, boy.

Remember what Dad said?

Chase, trip, bite.

You can do this.

Come.

Duma. Duma.

Come, boy.

Come.

Go get him.

Yeah, yeah.

Your cheetah is a great hunter.

I'm very impressed. He caught an egg.

You know, your cheetah...

...he will not live long out there.

For what he would be worth,

you know you could build a house.

You could build a lot of houses.

Maybe even buy a nice car.

With DVD.

You don't sell a friend.

You know, the rich...

...they buy animal like him every day.

Pay big money, make business.

You know? Zoo, fun park.

And then they make more money.

Where are you going, boy?

Do you know where you are going?

My dad and I found him over here.

So you plan to cross the Okavango.

Yeah, so?

"Yeah, so?"

That is a place of many teeth, my friend.

It is a place to die.

I'm not afraid.

Be smart.

Be afraid.

"I am not afraid."

Stupid boy.

Don't know nothing.

Don't know nothing.

You know, you could end up

in a lion's belly.

Fire.

Fire is the only thing that scares them.

You know, I know that place.

I could take you a little way that way.

But then I have to go back south, eh?

You would like that?

Okay.

I won't take you all the whole way.

Just some of the way.

Come on, boy.

Who are they?

People.

People who never dreamed

that they would die here.

This place is full of angry spirits, eh?

There's a story in this.

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Karen Janszen

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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