Synopsis
The 1870's. South Africa. Life is normal at the farm on the slopes of a Karoo Kopje.Things change when the sinister, eccentric Bonaparte Blenkins with bulbous nose and chimney pot hat arrives. Their childhood is disrupted by the bombastic Irishman who claims blood ties with Wellington and Queen Victoria and so gains uncanny influence over the girls' gross stupid stepmother.
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Cast
- Luke GallantWaldo
- Kasha KropinskiLyndall
- Armin Mueller-StahlOtto
- Karin van der LaagTent Sannie
- Anneke WeidemannEm
- Richard E. GrantBonaparte Blenkins
Recommendations
- 70
Los Angeles Times
As it is, Bustin' Bonaparte is an enjoyable diversion, but with more energy and style it might have been a gem. - 70
The New York Times
Meets its main requirements: it adapts a classic novel in gleaming cinematic form, and it ridicules the foibles of ruthless adults. - 70
Village Voice
A modest tale intermittently well told. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
This adaptation of South African writer Olive Schreiner's cult novel is too cute by far, sapping emotional resonance from a story that was in its original incarnation apparently far darker.