Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27144 in VHS
• Released on: 2001-03-27
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 115 minutes

Customer Reviews

Inspiring Film
This film is a must see. "I Dreamed of Africa" is based on a true story about Kuki Gallman, her new husband Poalo, and her son. The family makes the bold decision to pick up and move to a run down ranch in beautiful Africa in order to change thier lives for the better. Together as a family they fix up the house and live thier lives in Africa. The story mainly centers around Kuki's view of thier time spent in Africa, therefore you see her pain and her perspective of everything she went through to get there and when they get there. The film has a beautiful setting with a breathtaking soundtrack.This film captures the pain and love that Kuki feels over a series of years. The transitions from year to year are very smooth and the lives of the family are easy to follow. As one watches the family go through the beauties of Africa as well as the dangers of Africa one truley begins to understand the importance of their own life . This film made me want to pick up and move to Africa as well. It is truley inspiring as you see how strong Kuki Gallman was and is and how far she will go to help her family as well as people. I highly reccomend this film.

VERY good movie
I saw this movie last night, and was absolutley blown away by the deep impact the story had on me. Kim Basigner did a winderful job in her part as Kuki (cookie). The movie has two VERY sad parts, and it seems almost unreal that those type of things could happen to someone. The cinematography is beautiful, as well as just Africa itself (the film was shot on location). I reccomend this to anybody who wants to see a pretty good movie with a pretty good actress!

A simple story of a breathtaking life.
Based on a true story I did enjoyed this movie a great deal. This is a simple story a nice one and a sad also. But this story offers hope . It is not perfect not your typical Hollywood story . I think that one quality offered by this movie it's just a simple story whithout any pretention. You could say that is a story about life and it could be set in Africa ,America in fact anywhere in this world. Because this movie is about life you can do without any plot or story line (Where will you be in 5 years? do you know ?I doubt it!maybe you do? ) . In this movie the scenery and music are beautifull so is the story of Kuki (Kim Basinger). Some of the weak point in the movie are whith Paolo for exemple when he get's beat by at least ten person kick in the face the rib's in fact all over is body and a few days laters jump's back on his horse like nothing happened . The movie is about a person looking for happiness but by not being stupid knowing that sadness is also there. So has we all do we take the good and the bad and deal with it. Again Kim Basinger is very good in this and I have nothing to say about the other actor.