I need help identifying a movie in which a motorhome falls off a cliff, parents !


Question: Many years ago, a movie came on TV and I saw about the first half of it or so. I remember a family going on a camping trip in a motorhome, and while the son is outside, the motorhome falls off a cliff for some reason. The parents are inside the motorhome, and die, but the boy survives and finding his way in the wilderness. For some reason I think he encounters and is helped by a Native American man.

Details in my mind are sketchy, but the scene where the motorhome goes over the cliff really sticks out in my head.

I want to finish watching that movie, but I have no idea what it is called, who starred in it, or when it was made. (I do know that it was made at least twenty years ago.)


Answers: Many years ago, a movie came on TV and I saw about the first half of it or so. I remember a family going on a camping trip in a motorhome, and while the son is outside, the motorhome falls off a cliff for some reason. The parents are inside the motorhome, and die, but the boy survives and finding his way in the wilderness. For some reason I think he encounters and is helped by a Native American man.

Details in my mind are sketchy, but the scene where the motorhome goes over the cliff really sticks out in my head.

I want to finish watching that movie, but I have no idea what it is called, who starred in it, or when it was made. (I do know that it was made at least twenty years ago.)

THE EARTHLING (1980)
starring Ricky Schroder and William Holden

It takes place in Australia, and the man who helps the boy has traveled into the Outback to die. He tries to teach the boy to survive because he won't be able to get him back to civilization in time.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080671/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Earthli...
This was one of William Holden's last films. He plays Patrick Foley, a jaded disillusioned loner who is dying of cancer and decides to return to the outback where he was born. Along the way he meets Shawn (Schroder), a spoiled kid whose parents are killed in an accident. He and the boy dislike each other at first but then begin to bond as Holden teaches him the skills of survival.



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