The Adventures of Huck Finn

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Climb aboard for an extraordinary version of Mark Twain's sweeping adventure when Walt Disney Pictures presents THE ADVENTURES OF HUCK FINN. It's the unforgettable saga of a mischievous youngster and a runaway slave on a wild expedition to freedom. As the pair take the ride of their lives down the treacherous Mississippi River, they run into an entertaining assortment of offbeat characters and face one challenging adventure after another! You won't want to miss this sensational telling of Twain's classic tale -- an action-packed mix of thrills and excitement!

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Actors/Actresses: Elijah Wood; Anne Heche; Tom Aldredge; Curtis Armstrong; Ron Perlman; Jason Robards; Laura Bundy; Frances Conroy; Robbie Coltrane; James Gammon; Dana Ivey; Courtney B. Vance; Paxton Whitehead; Mary Louise Wilson
Directors: Stephen Sommers
Writers: Stephen Sommers
Theatrical Release Dates: 1993

Format: DVD MOVIE

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Huckleberry Finn's age has been scaled down in this 1993 Disney film in order to accommodate star Elijah Wood's young years at the time. But that's not the only concession Mark Twain's great American novel must make to Disney revisionism. Wood's Huck, as adapted for the screen by writer-director Stephen Sommers, is all rascal and only nominally a philosopher, which takes a lot of the soul out of Twain's extraordinary story about Huck's enlightenment while traveling with the slave Jim (Courtney B. Vance) along the Mississippi river. Big chunks of the journey are also minimized in significance, and not just for the sake of storytelling economy. Jason Robards Jr. and Robbie Coltrane brighten things up, but overall this is an unnecessarily simplified version of an important story. --Tom Keogh

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Great movie!.......2007-08-04

I've just saw this movie for the first time a few weeks ago. I work in a treatment center for sex offenders ages 10-18, and I work with the 10-14 year olds. A lot of them have terrible difficulty in school, with very low reading levels, and some struggle with lower IQ's. Well the boys read Huck Finn with their teacher, and then watched this movie. You could see the story come alive to them, and see some new connections made. I'm glad this movie is out there and making a diffrence in some many people's lives!

Watch again and again!.......2007-03-19

Our boys ask for this on Saturday afternoons almost every weekend! Just a great story retelling and with Elijah Wood, can't go wrong! Not much that even little folks have to 'turn away' from.

A favorite adaptation of a favorite novel.......2006-12-17

Twain's masterpiece could not be better portrayed than by young Elijah Wood and Courtney Vance. The portrayals of Huck and Jim are now the standard others will have to follow - and it will be a hard act to follow indeed. Mark Twain fans will be very pleased with this adaptation of the Twain classic novel.

The Adventures of Huck Finn.......2006-03-14

I used this as part of a literature unit with my students and it followed the book very closely but not so closely that we couldn't make some interesting comparisons.

The Adventures of Huck Finn DVD.......2006-02-23

This is a great movie and follows the book very well. It moves quickly so you have to watch carefully to catch the one liners and scenes that match up with the book. It was a great movie, one that I couldn't stop watching! It is full of action and the acting is great and captivating! My high school English class loved it also!

Huck & Tom's Mississippi Adventure ~ Animated ~ SHIPPED SAME DAY

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Mark Twain Light

Huck & Tom's Mississippi Adventure ~ Animated ~ SHIPPED SAME DAY

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FUN AND ADVENTURE ON THE BANKS OF THE MISSISSIPPI...

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Mark Twain Light.......2006-06-11

A mischievous Missouri boy named Tom befriends a wanderer named Huck, and the pair go in search of pirate treasure, take on the villainous "Injun Joe," and help their friend Jim travel downriver to visit his ailing mother in the hospital.

I remember watching Japanese "Anime" versions of classic literature and fairytales on Nickelodeon growing up, and one I always wanted to see again was an interpretation of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." This, I'm pretty sure, is not the version I remember watching (I think I had seen the `76 Anime version). For this version from Enoki Films (from around `94 or `95, I believe), the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are condensed into one film, despite the original title being "The Adventures of Huck Finn," (or "Huckleberry Finn Monogatari," actually). All the serious stuff has been taken out, too. No Muff Potter on trial for murder, no racism or slavery of any kind to deal with, and even Huck's pa isn't as bad as you may have remembered (though he's still a baddie). In fact, Huck's story suffers the most from this re-imagining. His trip downriver with Jim is pretty much uneventful, aside from some leg injuries, being reunited with Tom, and briefly losing Jim in a twister. We do meet Becky Thatcher, who gets lost in the caves with Tom, and the Widow Douglas, who is taking care of Jim while his mother is in the hospital, and who takes Huck in to live with her and a lovely young lady whose identity I'm not really sure of. Jim is a child in this animated version, just as in the live-action "Adventures of Tom Sawyer" from 1938. Bottom-line, this is Huck and Tom for kids, much like the 1980's TV movie, "Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn." It's fun enough for those who love the characters more for their sense of adventure than their stories' serious subject matter. It's a bargain for those Tom and Huck fanatics like me who find this DVD in the kids' dollar section at the local retail store.

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The Adventures of Huck Finn [Region 2]
Starring: Elijah Wood , Courtney B. Vance , Robbie Coltrane , Jason Robards , and Ron Perlman
Director: Stephen Sommers
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Great movie!.......2007-08-04

Watch again and again!.......2007-03-19

Our boys ask for this on Saturday afternoons almost every weekend! Just a great story retelling and with Elijah Wood, can't go wrong! Not much that even little folks have to 'turn away' from.

A favorite adaptation of a favorite novel.......2006-12-17

The Adventures of Huck Finn.......2006-03-14

I used this as part of a literature unit with my students and it followed the book very closely but not so closely that we couldn't make some interesting comparisons.

The Adventures of Huck Finn DVD.......2006-02-23

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Great movie!.......2007-08-04

Watch again and again!.......2007-03-19

Our boys ask for this on Saturday afternoons almost every weekend! Just a great story retelling and with Elijah Wood, can't go wrong! Not much that even little folks have to 'turn away' from.

A favorite adaptation of a favorite novel.......2006-12-17

The Adventures of Huck Finn.......2006-03-14

I used this as part of a literature unit with my students and it followed the book very closely but not so closely that we couldn't make some interesting comparisons.

The Adventures of Huck Finn DVD.......2006-02-23

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