Winning an Oscar for her performance in L.A. Confidential apparently gave Kim Basinger carte blanche to do a serious movie ... one that might hopefully make people forget she ever made My Stepmother Is an Alien or once got naked for Playboy.

Thus we get I Dreamed of Africa, a serious-sounding, reality-based movie about an Italian socialite who chucks everything for a new life for herself, her son and her new husband in Kenya.
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The makers of I Dreamed of Africa were caught in an interesting dilemma -- the story needs and deserves to be told in a five-hour mini-series, but the African landscape and beauty is best showcased on the big screen.

The scenery won out and the result is a 112-minute visual masterpiece that only scratches the surface of Kuki Gallmann's true story of her hard transition from the comforts of Venice to running a cattle ranch in Kenya.
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