Stars: Robbie Coltrane, Jason Robards, Elijah Wood, Courtney B. Vance

Director: Stephen Sommers

Summary: The Mark Twain adventure of two boys, one mischievous, the other a slave and their journey down the Mississippi River.

Mark Twain's immortal comic tale of the fraud, hypocrisy and bigotry of adults as seen through the eyes of an innocent boy and his friend Jim, a runaway slave. As they make their way along the Mississippi, they meet a motley collection of self-important characters and try their best to understand them despite their obvious flaws.

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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 is 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 travelling with the slave Jim (Courtney B. Vance) along the Mississippi river. Big chunks of the journey are also minimised 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 a literary classic. --Tom Keogh

Aspect Ratio:	1.33 Full Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Subtitles:	Dutch
Year:	1993
Release Date:	February 12, 2001
Runtime:	104 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	B E D 881457
Keywords:	Action, Adventures, Finn, General, Adventure, Huck, Elevation
Genre:	Action/Adventure