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A Far-Off Place
Junior-teen high adventure about an African-born white girl, tenderfoot tourist boy, and young Bushman fleeing from poachers across the barren Kalahari ("Wind can do it, we can do it"). Walkabout it isn't. Director Mikael Salomon, like Nicolas Roeg a proven cinematographer, finds lots of pretty landscapes and tangerine skies, not much narrative interest. Reese Witherspoon, from The Man in the Moon, is very appealing without any help. And very cute in her sleeveless scoop-neck animal skin, too. Ethan Randall, Maximilian Schell, Jack Thompson. 1993.
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MPAA Rating: PG