Duma (2005)
Director:
Carroll Ballard
Tagline:
« Some friendships are wilder than others. »
Actors:
Xan
Peter
Thandi
Lucille
Kristin
Rating:
(9’142 votes)
(9’142 votes)
Quotes:
« Ripkuna: Your cheetah is a great hunter. I'm very impressed… he caught an egg!
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[last lines]
« Xan: [voiceover narration] There are things you know without knowing. For Duma, it was his wildness. For Rip, his family. For me, it was my dad. Everything he was, everything he believed in is now part of me. I was taking Duma home, but he took me somewhere too. Finding Duma's true home brought me back to mine and showed me that love doesn't stop when time passes or you live in different places or somebody's gone. That's how it was with me and Duma.
»
« Ripkuna: People go when they are ready to go, not when you are. We are all just travelers on the same river, grandparents, parents, sons and daughters. We all have our time on the river. We do what we can before we disappear.
»
Trailer:
Duma
Runtime:100 minutes
Plots:
An orphaned cheetah becomes the best friend and pet of a young boy living in South Africa.
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.
Official website:
Warner Bros.
