An American boy and girl, spending six months in Kenya with their scientist parents adopt a cheetah, only to realize that they must set it loose so that it can learn to hunt and be free. However, when the animal is captured by poachers planning to race it against greyhounds, the two city kids, together with a young African goat herder they befriended, head off into the wild to rescue the cheetah.

• DirectorJeff Blyth
• Release18 August 1989
• Genre
  Drama / Family
• Duration1h 23m
• Budget$5,000,000
• Revenue$8,153,677
• Rate
  

  6.1
  40 reviews
• Productions

  Walt Disney Pictures, Silver Screen Partners III