In Missouri, during the 1840s, young Huck Finn fearful of his drunkard father and yearning for adventure, leaves his foster family and joins with runaway slave Jim in a voyage down the Mississippi River toward slavery free states.
Climb aboard for an extraordinary version of Mark Twain’s sweeping adventure when Walt Disney Pictures presents THE ADVENTURES OF HUCK FINN. It’s the unforgettable saga of a mischievous youngster and a runaway slave on a wild expedition to freedom. As the pair take the ride of their lives down the treacherous Mississippi River, they run into an entertaining assortment of offbeat characters and face one challenging adventure after another! You won’t want to miss this sensational telling of Twain’s classic tale — an action-packed mix of thrills and excitement!|When the Mark Twain book on which the movie is based was first released in 1885, it was banned within a month. One public library excluded the book because it was “rough, coarse and inelegant, dealing with a series of experiences not elevating, the whole book being more suited to the slums than to intelligent, respectable people.”|This is the seventh on-screen telling of the Mark Twain tale.
Set in the Victorian era.
Starring Elijah Wood, Anne Heche, Tom Aldredge, Curtis Armstrong, Ron Perlman.
Rated PG.
There are multiple adaptations of the classic story, including: Huckleberry Finn (1931), [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn](http://amzn.to/2c4TEgc) (1939), [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn](http://amzn.to/2c4UoC1) (1960), [Huckleberry Finn](http://amzn.to/2c4TmG3) (1974), [Huckleberry Finn](http://amzn.to/2cK6tet) (1975) (TV Movie), and [Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (2014)](http://amzn.to/2ckCYBE).