The Jungle Book (1994)

Director:

Stephen Sommers

Writers (WGA):

Rudyard Kipling (characters from novel "The Jungle Book")
Ron Yanover (story) ...

Release Date:

25 December 1994 (USA)

Genre:

Family | Adventure | Romance

Tagline:

Born of man, raised by animals, destined for adventure.

Plot:

A faithful adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of Mowgoli the jungle boy who is raised by wolves...

Plot Keywords:

Jungle | Tiger | Treasure | Remake | Jewelry

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Jason Scott Lee	...	Mowgli
Cary Elwes	...	Captain William Boone
Lena Headey	...	Katherine 'Kitty' Brydon
Sam Neill	...	Colonel Geofferey Brydon
John Cleese	...	Dr. Julien Plumford
Jason Flemyng	...	Lt. John Wilkins
Stefan Kalipha	...	Buldeo
Ron Donachie	...	Sgt. Harley
Anirudh Agarwal	...	Tabaqui (as Anirudh Agrawal)
Faran Tahir	...	Nathoo
Sean Naegeli	...	Mowgli, age 5
Joanna Wolff	...	Kitty Brydon, age 5
Liza Walker	...	Alice
Rachel Robertson	...	Rose
Natalie Morse	...	Margaret

Also Known As:

El libro de la selva (USA: Spanish title)
Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (USA) (complete title)
Le livre de la jungle (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]
Das Dschungelbuch (Germany) [de]
Djungelboken (Sweden) [sv]
El libro de la selva - La película (Argentina) [es]
El libro de la selva: la aventura continúa (Spain) [es]
Jungelboken (Sweden) [sv]
Junglebogen (Denmark) [da]
Ksiega dzungli (Poland) [pl]
Maugli, a dzsungel fia (Hungary) [hu]
Mowgli - Il libro della giungla (Italy) [it]
Mowgli: Thryloi apo to vivlio tis zouglas (Greece) [el]
O Livro da Selva (Brazil) [pt]
Ormanin kitabi (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Rudyard Kiplingin Viidakkokirja (Finland) [fi]
Viidakkokirja (Finland) [fi]

MPAA:

Rated PG for action/violence and some mild language.

Runtime:

111 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:L | South Korea:All | Peru:PT | Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG | Chile:TE | Finland:K-10/8 | Germany:6 (w) | Portugal:M/6 | Spain:T | Sweden:11 | UK:PG | USA:PG | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Beaufort, South Carolina, USA

Company:

Walt Disney Pictures

Goofs:

Errors in geography: When the doctor talks to several girls at the river, lemurs are visible. Lemurs occur naturally only in Madagascar.

Quotes:

Captain William Boone: I hunt animals, you know.
Mowgli: Maybe someday, you hunt me.

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys: The King of Thieves (#2.1)" (1995)

Underrated

I never had the chance to watch Zoltan Korda's The Jungle Book, which, they say, was quite good, so this has to be my favorite live action Jungle Book (not strange; most real live adaptations of this superb story by Rudyard Kipling are very bad). This is somewhat of a mixture between Tarzan and the original Jungle Book, and even, the Disney jungle book. It was a little weird to see Jason Scott Lee playing Mowgli (he is OBVIOUSLY not Indian), but who cares about that with so many magnificent animals in the movie. The tiger, Shere Khan, was reimagined from the lame, lowly man eater from the original novel, to the powerful guardian of the jungle law, who kills men because they break the Law (killing with no need). In this story, also, Shere Khan lives, and even makes peace with Mowgli when he realizes that he, despite being a man, is also a jungle creature.

A very good adventure movie; no one should miss it.