The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993 film)
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| Directed by | Stephen Sommers |
| Produced by | John Baldecchi |
| Written by | Mark Twain (novel) Stephen Sommers (screenplay) |
| Starring | Elijah Wood Courtney B. Vance |
| Distributed by | Disney |
| Release date(s) | 1993 |
| Running time | 108 min. |
| Language | English |
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The Adventures of Huck Finn is a 1993 Disney film starring Elijah Wood and Courtney B. Vance; it is based on Mark Twain's novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The film follows a boy named Huckleberry Finn and an escaped slave named Jim, who travel the Mississippi River together and overcome various obstacles along the way. The movie received a "PG" rating from the MPAA for some mild violence and language.
Tagline: For anyone who has ever dreamed of running away from it all.
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The plot of the film follows that of Mark Twain's novel, albeit with quite a few variations. Following the death of his mother and the disappearance of his brutal alcoholic father, Pap Finn, Huckleberry 'Huck' Finn has been placed under the guardianship of Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson, the latter of whom owns a slave named Jim, who is Huck's friend. However, Pap Finn, who wants his share of the $600 left to Huck by his mother, returns one night and kidnaps Huck from Widow Douglas's house. Deciding that the only way he can escape his cruel father is if he were dead, Huck fakes his own murder and runs away from home, following the Mississippi River with Jim, who has escaped from Miss Watson after not only having overheard an argument between her and Widow Douglas about whether to sell him or not (Jim didn't want to be separated from his family) but also having been wrongfully accused of killing Huck. Hoping to reach Cairo, Illinois, where they hope to take a steamboat north to the free states, the duo encounter many adventures along the way: pirates on a ship wrecked during a storm, with whom Pap Finn has been working, and who kill him for double-crossing them (the pirates themselves meet a watery grave when the ship finally sinks); the Grangerford family, whose 30-year long feud with another family, the Shepherdsons, erupts into a violent gunfight after the daughter of the family, Miss Sophie, runs away to marry one of the Shepherdson sons, resulting in the rest of the Grangerfords being shot and killed – including, to Huck's horror, young Billy Grangerford, who had befriended him; colorful conmen The Duke and The King, who impersonate William and Harvey Wilks, the English brothers of the deceased Peter Wilks, in order to swindle the Wilks family out of their fortune, only to have the tables turned on them when the real Wilks brothers arrive and, by means of a clever trick, expose the pair as imposters; and spunky 12-year old Susan, the youngest of the Wilks sisters, who gives Huck his first kiss. Jim also re-educates Huck away from the racist views that he has grown up with and, when Miss Watson dies, finds himself set free under the terms of her will. As for Huck, Widow Douglas is planning to both adopt and civilize him, but – naturally –at the end Miss Watson dies and in her will she frees Jim and his family.
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- Director Stephen Sommers makes a cameo in the film as the man silhouetted against the fog banging a pot.
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