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Tom and Huck

Genre
Comedy
Rating
PG
Released
22 December, 1995
Tom and Huck

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.