

A Far Off Place
A far off land. A far off journey. A far off adventure.
Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous African desert! Equipped only with their wits and the expertise of a native bushman who befriends them, they are determined to triumph over impossible odds and reach their destination. But along the way, the trio face a primitive desert wilderness.
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6.2/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $12.9M
- Language
- English
- africa
- coming of age
- survival
- murder
- explosion
- teenage love
- kalahari
- bushman
- first love
- african bush
- animal welfare
- kalahari desert
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG12 Mar 1993
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG13 Aug 1993
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical23 Jun 1994
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical11 Aug 1994
BrazilBR
- Theatrical23 Jul 1993
ColombiaCO
- Theatrical26 Nov 1993
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical27 Aug 1993
FinlandFI
- Theatrical21 Jan 1994
FranceFR
- Theatrical28 Jul 1993
GermanyDE
- Theatrical626 Aug 1993
- Physical6VHS31 Mar 1994
- TVPay TV (Premiere)9 Apr 1995
- TVFree TV (Das Erste)14 Jun 1998
- Physical6DVD5 Dec 2013
HungaryHU
- PhysicalVHS24 Mar 1994
IrelandIE
- TheatricalPG20 Aug 1993
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A Far Off Place was released on 12 March 1993.
Audience reviews
2- R6/10
Reno
7/24/2016
> The Kalahari adventure! If you are a Disney live-action film fan, you won't disappoint with it. It comes between the regular Disney films and Disney nature films. It sets in somewhere in the Namibia and takes us with to a great adventure which is more like a documentary film than a film with a story. Actually, there was a small story, mostly on the opening and the end part and the rest of the film was a foot jou…
- R8/10
r96sk
9/26/2020
Starts off a little rocky, but once it gets going <em>'A Far Off Place'</em> is very good. It's exactly what you'd want from an adventure drama. The adventure is a grand one, while the drama is certainly in there from beginning to end. The stuff in the Kalahari Desert looks neat, with it being filmed across Namibia and Zimbabwe. James Horner's score, meanwhile, fits. The main reason for the iffy start is the ac…
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