If you're hungry for animal adventure that doesn't feature cutesy animated critters cracking wise and capering to Randy Newman song, this is your chance to pounce. Like any creature feature worth its salt, writer-director Carroll Ballard's gorgeous coming-of-age adventure opens with a trauma that could bring a grown man to tears: a trio of peeping, impossibly cute cheetah cubs watch helplessly as their mother is killed by an enormous lion. Alone and frightened, one of the cheetah babies wanders out of his South African game preserve and onto a remote stretch of highway — right into the path of an oncoming car. Luckily, the vintage Porsche stops just in time, and the ...
Released:
2005
Rated:
PG
Length:
100 mins