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As a film geared toward children, Bustin' Bonaparte meets its main requirements: it adapts a classic novel in gleaming cinematic form, and it ridicules the foibles of ruthless adults.
Jun 3, 2005 · In 1870, two pre-teenage girls, Em and Lyndall, mourn their lost parents while lodging at chubby Aunt Sannie's farm in South Africa. Bonaparte Blenkins (Richard E. Grant) drifts down the dusty ...
Apr 3, 2005 · Tomatometer 4 Reviews. 25% Audience Score 250+ Ratings. Want to see. Movie Info. A con man (Richard E. Grant) targets residents (Luke Gallant, Kasha Kropinski) of a farm in South Africa. Rating:...
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- David Lister
- PG
- Luke Gallant
Jun 10, 2005 · When an evil, top-hatted stranger named Bonaparte Blenkins (Grant) arrives, the farm's placid stasis is interrupted.
While both narratives utilize the surprising mode of play to unfold competing racial and gender hierarchies in colonial Africa, Lister’s comedic film radically revises Schreiner’s tragic novel to witness the hopeful post-apartheid nationalism of Africa’s children.
View movie reviews Bustin' Bonaparte (The Story of an African Farm) Three young children live carefree lives under the hot African sun until, one day, a stranger arrives and changes their lives forever, but he underestimates the intelligence of Lyndall who comes to her friends' rescue.
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