Interactive PDF on an iPhone/iPad?

Hi folks...I'm supposed to create an "interactive presentation" for work so I created a document in InDesign and used a lot of buttons to go back and forth between pages, video files for page dividers and a lot of rollovers. I saved the file as a PDF and it works perfectly fine using Acrobat on a mac or pc...all rollovers intact. The boss wants people to be able to view the same PDF on an iPhone and iPad.
Is this even possible? I got a couple PDF apps for my iPhone to test it out and none of the rollovers worked, the movies didn't play and some images ended up going missing. The boss is telling me to find a way to get this to work on them but I don't think there is...at least not with my skillset.
I need to give her reasons why it's NOT working...any ideas? Is there some applicationsn better suited to have it work on the web and iDevices?

Thanks guys. Any ideas what type of software is required to create "interactive" files for the iDevice? Kinda like what Loud Crow did with the Peter Rabbit book where you can pull tabs, flip pages and all that...I'm assuming that's way outta my job expertise.

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