Tom and Huck is a 1995 American adventure comedy-drama film based on Mark Twain's 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Brad Renfro, Mike McShane, Eric Schweig and Amy Wright. The film was directed by Peter Hewitt and produced/co-written by Stephen Sommers. The movie was released in North America on December 22, 1995. In the film, mischievous young Tom Sawyer witnesses a murder by a vicious half-Native American criminal known as "Injun Joe". Tom befriends Huck Finn, a boy with no future and no family, and is forced to choose between honoring a friendship or honoring an oath, when the town drunk is accused of the murder.
| Director | Peter Hewitt |
| Produced by | Laurence Mark, Stephen Sommers |
| Screenplay by | Stephen Sommers, David Loughery |
| Starring | Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Brad Renfro |
| Music | Stephen Endelman |
| Cinematography | Bobby Bukowski |
| Edited by | David Freeman |
| Production, company | Walt Disney Pictures |
| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
| Released | December 22, 1995 |
| Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $23.9 million |
| Netflix ID | 60026900 |
About Tom and Huck
Based on the Mark Twain classic The Adventures of Tom Saywer, the Disney movie sees two best friends on a quest to prove the innocence of a wrongly accused man after they had themselves witnessed the murder.
Achievement of Tom and Huck
Producer and co-writer Stephen Sommers had already worked with Disney on another adaptation of Twain's work: 1993's The Adventures of Huck Finn. Eric Schweig won the 1996 First Americans in the Arts Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Film).
Top Facts You Did Not Know About Tom and Huck
The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993) - Disney's previous Twain adaptation, also worked on by Sommers, and starring Elijah Wood, Courtney B. Vance and Jason Robards.. Films directed by Peter Hewitt.. Films based on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.. Films produced by Laurence Mark.. Films about orphans.. Walt Disney Pictures films.
Latest information about Tom and Huck updated on July 28 2021.
