Directed by:
Jeff BlythScreenplay:
Erik TarloffCinematography:
Thomas BurstynComposer:
Bruce RowlandPlots(1)
They taught him how to play video games. He showed them how to survive! For California teenagers, Ted Johnson (Keith Coogan), and his sister Susan, a summer vacation in Africa turns into an incredible adventure and a struggle for survival! With their new friend, Morogo, a Masai tribal boy, they share an amazing, confusing, and funny cross-cultural friendship. Together they find an orphaned cheetah cub, "Duma," and raise her as a pet. But when Duma is stolen by corrupt gamblers, Ted and Susan set out alone across the uncharted wilderness to find her. Their mission: a daring rescue. Their only ally: Morogo ... if he can find them! (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Keith Coogan
USA
Best movies:
The Fox and the Hound (1981)
Cheetah (1989)
Adventures in Babysitting (1987)
Lucy Deakins
USA
Best movies:
Cheetah (1989)
The Boy Who Could Fly (1986)
There Goes My Baby (1994)
Timothy Landfield
USA
Best movies:
Cheetah (1989)
The Cooler (2003)
Above Suspicion (1995)
Colin Mothupi
Best movies:
Cheetah (1989)
Ivory Hunters (1990) (TV movie)
Anthony Baird
UK
Best movies:
Cheetah (1989)
Ipcress (1965)
Dead of Night (1945)