The Pitch: It's like The Postman Always Rings Twice meets The Graduate!  

A woman lion tamer has run away from a circus in Germany with eight lions, two tigers and the circus director's son, police said on Friday.

The woman, in her late 40s, is believed to have developed a close relationship with the 20-year-old man she was training to become a lion tamer, a police spokesman in the northern German town of Melle said.

The couple eloped with a truck containing the animals nd is still on the run since disappearing on Monday night