# Help with a movie name

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**Created:** [October 8, 2013, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-movie-name/670706 "2013-10-08T18:45:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-movie-name/670706/1 "2013-10-08T18:45:53Z")

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I’m trying to recall the name of a movie that was released in the late 80s or early 90s. The plot centered around a couple of fair skinned Caucasian kids on the run through an African desert trying to escape bad guys. They meet up with a an adolescent Bushman boy, who teaches them about living in the desert, and guides them to civilization. The journey was about 1000 miles.

I want to think the setting was Angola or Namibia, but I may be confusing story setting with movie location. I also want to think the movie was either outright Disney, or their Touchstone subsidiary.

Anyone know what movie I’m describing? I struck out at IMDB and a couple other sites, FWIW.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-movie-name/670706/2 "2013-10-08T18:49:13Z")

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Sounds like 1993’s _[A Far Off Place](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106868/)_.

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> The witty Nonni and the stuck-up city-boy Harry are the only ones to survive a massacre of a gang of poachers among the gamekeeper’s family on his lonesome farm in the savanna. Now the ruthless murderers are after them as the only witnesses. Without a means of transportation, the only way to escape is to walk through 2000 kilometers of Kalahari desert with the help of the African bushman Xhabbo. On the months-long journey ahead they not only become good friends against their differences, but also realize that every one of them has strength and skills that are required to survive.

[I typed “two boys and a bushman in africa escape movie” in Google, and this popped up first.]

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**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-movie-name/670706/3 "2013-10-08T18:57:56Z")

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Thanks, that’s it.

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**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-movie-name/670706/4 "2013-10-08T21:55:02Z")

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I haven’t seen **A Far Off Place** , but it sounds like a remake of [Walkabout](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067959/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) (1971)