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PaulA
Since: Jan, 2010
5th Mar, 2011 12:00:55 AM
You were close: Nukie
This was a movie I saw in the 90's. It was about two aliens who were stranded on Earth and separated; they may have been brothers. One alien was found by a family living in Africa. The family had two brothers in it who were both children. The other alien was taken in by the government and experimented on. One of the human brothers is taken away, either by the authorities or by criminals. At the end of the film, both the kid and the alien are returned to the family, with the aliens slowly shuffling up to each other (I think they were injured/exhausted) and the human kid running up to his family and being embraced. I think the movie was called Nuki, but I'm not finding anything under that name. Nuki, or whatever the word really was, was also the name of one of the characters - I think one of the aliens.
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