Running Wild 1995

     Christine Shaye works for the television station Global Explorer.  She is interested in working on a good documentary subject.  She travels to Africa to meet John Varty.  He has been working on documentaries about wild life in Africa.  Another television executive is trying to derail any project that Christine proposes to management.  Christine doesn't realize he is doing this?  The African subject is a mother leopard and her two cubs.  Christine gets the go ahead on her project but Varty tells her that the mother leopard has died.  She was killed in a lion attack and the focus now is the nurturing of the two cubs. 

     Christine and John both have the interests of the cubs as their focus.  The wild life manager has money on his mind and he has a buyer for the cubs at a very good price.  He is trying at every turn to get the cubs away from Christine and John.  They have been trying to find a place that will take the cups in a wild life area.  This is a LOT more complicated than they expected.  3 1/2* (I liked this movie) 

94 min, Drama directed by Dee McLachlan with John Varty, Elmon Mhlongo, Brooke Shields, Martin Sheen, David Keith, Norman Anstey, Themba Ndaba, Renee Estevez, Greg Latter, Vusi Kunene, Tidi Modise.

Note:  Imdb 5.7, 33% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon 3.9* out of 5* with 20 reviews, The Movie Scene 3* out of 5*.

Special Note:  Brook Shields previously went on safari in Kenya for the TV series Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous in 1984.  Recently, John Varty has been leading a controversial project that aims to create a free-ranging, self-sustaining tiger population outside of Asia.He h as made more than 30 documentaries and this feature film.  Swift and Silent won an American Cable TV award in 1993 and The Silent Hunter won The New York Gold Award.