A Far Off Place

1993 PG-13 1h 48m

6.2 / 10 64

RATING

6.2/10

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Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous African desert! Equipped only with their wits and the expertise of a native bushman who befriends them, they are determined to triumph over impossible odds and reach their destination. But along the way, the trio face a primitive desert wilderness.

Director Mikael Salomon

Writers

Laurens van der Post Robert Caswell Sally Robinson

Stars

Reese Witherspoon Ethan Embry Jack Thompson

Drama Adventure

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r96sk 27 Sep 2020

8/10

Starts off a little rocky, but once it gets going <em>'A Far Off Place'</em> is very good. It's exactly what you'd want from an adventure drama. The adventure is a grand one, while the drama is certainly in there from beginning to end. The stuff in the Kalahari Desert looks neat, with it being filmed across Namibia and Zimbabwe. James Horner's score, meanwhile, fits. The main reason for the ...

Rangan 24 Jul 2016

6/10

> The Kalahari adventure! If you are a Disney live-action film fan, you won't disappoint with it. It comes between the regular Disney films and Disney nature films. It sets in somewhere in the Namibia and takes us with to a great adventure which is more like a documentary film than a film with a story. Actually, there was a small story, mostly on the opening and the end part and the rest of the...