Daniel Gerroll, Ethan Embry, Jack Thompson
In this 1993 Disney adventure, Reese Witherspoon and Ethan Embry are two young survivors of an African massacre. She is the daughter of a game warden; he is a sulky teen visiting his dad. When poacher...( read more
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DVD Release Date: June 1, 2004
Stats: 262 reviews
Ha ha! I got free passes to this when I was about 17. It was for a 9am showing at a theater about 35 miles away. All I remember is a theater full of kids crying and screaming at the screen while poachers shot up the elephants.
Much more enjoyable when I was a kid, doesn't stand up to adult viewing.
i always had to fast-forward the first scene...poor elephans...but i love this movie...even before these young actors became famous...
Nonnie Parker (Reese Witherspoon) & Harry Winslow (Ethan Randall) are the only ones to survive to walk through 2000 kilometers of Kalahari desert with help from African bushman Xhabbo (Sarel Bok) to find Colonel Mopani Theron (Maximilian Schell).
Finally I've seen the movie I've longed to see FOREVER and I'm not dissappointed.
Here you get to see 17-year-old Reese Witherspoon act incredibly well, she's so different and unusual in this movie but she acts so real.
This is such a movie and the story was so gripping and t...( read more)
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