The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)

Director:

Stephen Sommers

Writers (WGA):

Mark Twain (novel)
Stephen Sommers (screenplay)

Release Date:

2 April 1993 (USA)

Genre:

Family | Adventure | Drama

Tagline:

They set off in search for freedom and discovered the adventure of a lifetime!

Plot:

Huckleberry Finn, the half-literate son of a drunk, runs away from home and follows the Mississippi River with an escaped slave named Jim...

Plot Keywords:

Con | River | Mississippi River | Slave | Reward

Cast

Elijah Wood	...	Huck Finn
Courtney B. Vance	...	Jim
Robbie Coltrane	...	The Duke
Jason Robards	...	The King
Ron Perlman	...	Pap Finn
Dana Ivey	...	Widow Douglas
Anne Heche	...	Mary Jane Wilks
James Gammon	...	Deputy Hines
Paxton Whitehead	...	Harvey Wilks
Tom Aldredge	...	Dr. Robinson
Laura Bell Bundy	...	Susan Wilks (as Laura Bundy)
Curtis Armstrong	...	Country Jake
Mary Louise Wilson	...	Miss Watson
Frances Conroy	...	Scrawny Shanty Lady
Danny Tamberelli	...	Ben Rodgers (as Daniel Tamberelli)

Also Known As:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
As Aventuras de Huck Finn (Brazil) (Portugal) [pt]
Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn (Argentina) (Spain) [es]
Die Abenteuer von Huck Finn (Germany) [de]
Huckleberry Finnin seikkailut (Finland) [fi]
Huckleberry Finns äventyr (Sweden) [sv]
Le avventure di Huck Finn (Italy) [it]
Les aventures de Huckleberry Finn (France) (video title) [fr]
Oi peripeteies tou Huck Finn (Greece) [el]
Przygody Hucka Finna (Poland) [pl]

MPAA:

Rated PG for some mild violence and language.

Runtime:

108 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

South Korea:All | Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG | Chile:TE | Finland:K-10/7 | Germany:6 | Iceland:L | Peru:PT | Sweden:11 | UK:PG | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Jefferson Military College - Highway 61, Washington, Mississippi, USA

Company:

Walt Disney Pictures

Trivia:

The movie contains no digital effects.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: When Huck Finn is walking with Billy Grangerford (at 45:05 to 45:07) to a brick outbuilding where a new slave is chained, you can see the brake lights of a blue mini van in the bottom left quarter of the screen - look to the left of the tree trunk, under the shrubbery.

Quotes:

Huck Finn: And she got to talking about this, and about that, and blah-di, blah-di, blah until I wanted to wring her scrawny little neck! But by and by, she got to talkin' about the murder.

Movie Connections:

Version of Huckleberry Finn (1931)

Soundtrack:

String Quartet No.17 'Jagd' in B-Flat major, K.458

"I almost puked up my livers!"

I was supposed to read this book a long time ago in high school, as I was not one for reading, I never did. But if this movie is just like the Mark Twain classic, perhaps someday I'll take a look. The movies tells the adventures of Huck Finn (Elijah Wood in his pre-Frodo days), a semi-literate, wonderful liar of a kid in Missouri who runs away from home. Along the way, he meets up with a run-away slave and friend, Jim (Courtney B. Vance), and raft up and down the Mississippi River, evading the hoards of people trying to chase them down. Along the way, they run into a rich family involved in a feud with their neighbors, robbers, thieves, and a pair of gentlemen who are even better at plotting and acting than Huck Finn, played by Robbie Coltrane and Jason Robards. The folksy dialogue that is the staple of Twain books is reproduced perfectly by the actors, and the offbeat stories are paced well. There are 3 main stories in the movie, each taking about a third of the movie, so no lingering on one story at the expense of others. The film also has a good look to it, the idea that it is 1850 Missouri is easily bought. The costumes and set designs are solid. For good, solid, family entertainment, you can do much worse than The Adventures of Huck Finn.