Meerkat Moonship

Meerkat Moonship

2018•1h 40m•7.3/10

Fantasy

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🎬TMDb

7.3/10(7)

Timid, wildly imaginative 13-year-old Gideonette de La Rey learns that the name she was given comes with it a horrible curse. After her father dies, Gideonette is paralyzed by fear and is sent to live on a farm in the forest with her grandparents where she befriends a young deaf boy who is “training” to become an astronaut and preparing to fly away in a Moonship that Gideonette’s grandfather had built.

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AF

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Released

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Cast

Anchen du Plessis

Gideonette De La Rey

Rika Sennett

Rika Sennett

Ouma Koekie

Pierre van Pletzen

Pierre van Pletzen

Oupa Willem

Themba Ntuli

Bhubesi

Hanlé Barnard

Mathilda Johanna De La Rey

Drikus Volschenk

Gideon De La Rey

Doctor Khasu-Nkatlo

Liena

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