Duma

Duma, released in 2005, follows a young boy named Xan who lives with his parents on a ranch in Kenya. After finding an orphaned cheetah cub whose mother has died, he takes the animal in and names it Duma. As the cheetah grows, the family realizes it cannot stay, and Xan sets out to return the animal to the wild rather than let it fall into the hands of a drifter who sees it as a way to make money. The journey across the South African landscape brings lions, crocodiles and river rapids, and forces the boy to grow up quickly.

Carroll Ballard directed the film, the fifth feature in his career after The Perils of Priscilla, The Black Stallion, Wind and Fly Away Home. The screenplay was written by Carol Cawthra Hopcraft, Karen Janszen and Mark St. Germain, and the cast includes Alex Michaeletos as Xan, Campbell Scott as Peter, Hope Davis as Kristin, Mary Makhatho, Nthabiseng Kenoshi and Jennifer Steyn. Shot as a co-production between the United States and South Africa for Warner Bros. Pictures and other companies, it runs 100 minutes.

The film drew a critics' rating of 7.6/10 from 61 reviews, notably higher than its audience scores. On TMDB it holds 7.4/10 from 214 votes, while on IMDb it stands at 5.6/10 from 37 votes.