Far from home in the lush bamboo forests of China, ten-year-old Ryan Tyler, with the help of a young girl, goes on a wonderful journey to rescue a baby panda taken by poachers.
Directed by Christopher Cain
china
panda
poacher
animals
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Letterboxd
2.8 / 5
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Cast
Stephen Lang
Michael Tyler
Ryan Slater
Ryan Tyler
Ding Yi
Ling
Isabella Hofmann
Beth
Doug Abrahams
Ticket Agent
Daniella Evangelista
Classmate
Crew
Christopher Cain
Director
William Ross
Original Music Composer
Jack N. Green
Director of Photography
Marion Dougherty
Casting Director
Mark P. Stoeckinger
Supervising Sound Editor
Rick Baker
Special Effects
Popular Reviews
12 reviews
Jess
3.0★ · 03/17/25
I’m watching this thinking about my sister, who’s also autistic and has a strong special interest. Her special interest is pandas! They’ve been her interest for at least 17 years. I love how our interests are complete opposites and both have lasted longer than ten years. You should give her a follow! She’s not a film buff like I am, but give her some love anyway!
I love that this film was shot in China. The cinematography was beautiful! The panda cub was adorable and was the second best part about this film. Seeing a young Stephen Lang was nice, too. Other than that, it’s a bad film. You can easily tell when they use fake pandas. Ryan is such a laughably bad character. The boy who played him was pretty bad, too. His performance was one of the most unintentionally hilarious kid performances I’ve ever seen.
I’m watching this thinking about my sister, who’s also autistic and has a strong special interest. Her special interest is pandas! They’ve been her interest for at least 17 years. I love how our interests are complete opposites and both have lasted longer than ten years. You should give her a follow! She’s not a film buff like I am, but give her some love anyway!
I love that this film was shot in China. The cinematography was beautiful! The panda cub was adorable and was the second best part about this film. Seeing a young Stephen Lang was nice, too. Other than that, it’s a bad film. You can easily tell when they use fake pandas. Ryan is such a laughably bad character. The boy who played him was pretty bad, too. His performance was one of the most unintentionally hilarious kid performances I’ve ever seen.
Pat Reilly
1.2★ · 11/16/23
I haven’t seen this in 25 years but this is the first movie I remember seeing and telling my mother that I didn’t like it.
I haven’t seen this in 25 years but this is the first movie I remember seeing and telling my mother that I didn’t like it.
