Kim Basinger in I Dreamed of Africa (2000)

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Just a short capsule on this one. It is saddled with the fundamental problem of any true story. It doesn't have a "hook" to make it cinematic. Oh, sure, the idea of an urbanized European family trying to adjust to a new life on the African Savannah is ipso facto a great backdrop, but where do you go from there?

The family dog is swatted by lions, the husband likes to safari and leave his wife alone, they have to figure out how to educate their son, yadda, yadda, yadda. The usual Tarzan-meets-Old-Yeller cliches. In fact, this same director did Greystoke. I should warn you, however, that there is a more salient point in his bio. He directed Chariots of Fire, which I have fallen asleep while dutifully trying to watch on several occasions. And I'm not kidding!

It would have made a dynamite IMAX film, with all the herds of leaping beasts, and thundering beasts, and quaint villages, and kids from many lands learning to understand each other. In other words, it's a meandering travelogue.
Otherwise .......... Joanne Worley's schtick summed up this movie perfectly ...... "Borrrrrrrr-ing"…

This movie also bombed el grande The Rotten Tomatoes index: only 10%! Six positive reviews, 56 negative. From the elite critics, it scored a perfect zero for fourteen. IMDb viewers rated it 4.7 out of 10. This movie did even worse at the box office than Supernova, although it didn't lose as much for its investors, thanks to a smaller budget. It was also released on some 2000 screens, and took in only six million dollars on a 34 million dollar budget. More telling still, it was still playing at first run theaters in June, but I am writing this after having rented the DVD in August. Give you the general idea?

Kim Basinger looked magnificent. Age has not dimmed her beauty. She did a generally unrevealing nude scene, although her one breast was visible and still looked plenty appealing.

Written by: Scoopy …Scoopy.net