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Meerkat Moonship

2018-03-16 · 100 min · ★ 7.3

Fantasy

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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Hanneke Schutte
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Anchen du PlessisGideonette De La Rey
Rika SennettRika SennettOuma Koekie
Pierre van PletzenPierre van PletzenOupa Willem
Themba NtuliBhubesi
Hanlé BarnardMathilda Johanna De La Rey
Drikus VolschenkGideon De La Rey
Doctor Khasu-NkatloLiena

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