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The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)

Director: Stephen Sommers

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From Time Out Film Guide

This Disney movie has Huck as cheeky but resourceful artful dodger - which softens the hard times and produces an efficient but unexceptional adventure side-stepping the moral dimension and pathos of Twain's original story. The film has a Gothic beginning, but that's perhaps chiefly a nod to modern horror, and is soon dropped as Huck (Wood) takes to the raft with the runaway Jim (Vance) for his unsentimental education on the Mississippi. The Grangerford/Shepherdson feud is glossed over, and it's only with the arrival of Robards' 'King' and Coltrane's 'Duke' that things begin to liven up.

Author: WH 0000-00-00 00:00:00

Time Out Film Guide

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Cast & crew

Director: Stephen Sommers

Producer: Larry Marks

Cast: Elijah Wood, Courtney B Vance, Robbie Coltrane, Jason Robards, Ron Perlman, Dana Ivey full cast

Genre(s): Children's

Duration: 108 mins


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