A Far Off Place

A Far Off Place

Infobox_Film
name=A Far Off Place


caption = Theatrical release poster
imdb_id=0106868
writer=Laurens Van der Post
Robert Caswell
Jonathan Hensleigh
Sally Robinson
starring=Reese Witherspoon
Ethan Randall
director=Mikael Salomon
music=James Horner | distributor=Walt Disney Pictures
released=March 12 1993
runtime=100 min.
language=English
movie_series=
awards=
producer=Eva Monley
Elaine Sperber
budget= |

"A Far Off Place" is a Walt Disney Pictures and Amblin Entertainment film from 1993, starring Reese Witherspoon, Ethan Randall and Jack Thompson. It is based on Laurens van der Post's works, "A Far Off Place" and "A Story Like the Wind".

Plot

The witty Nonnie and the stuck-up city-boy Harry are the only ones to survive a massacre of a gang of poachers among the gamekeeper's family on his lonesome farm in the savanna. Now the ruthless murderers are after them as the only witnesses. Without a means of transportation, the only way to escape is to walk through 2000 kilometers of Kalahari desert with the help of the African bushman Xhabbo. On the months-long journey ahead they not only become good friends against their differences, but also realize that every one of them has strength and skills that are required to survive.

Cast

ee also

*"The Lion King"

External links

*imdb title|id=106868
*rotten-tomatoes|id=a_far_off_place


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