Underplayed Gems

Tom and Huck (1995)

Tom and Huck poster
Directed by
Peter Hewitt
Genre
adventure film, comedy drama, teen film, coming-of-age film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 28m
Rated
PG
Rating
5.3 of 10 from 215 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A mischievous boy named Tom Sawyer sees a murder committed by a dangerous criminal. He befriends Huck Finn, a homeless boy, and together they must decide whether to break a promise or let an innocent man take the blame.

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What happens

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 and Brad Renfro. The film was directed by Peter Hewitt and produced/co-written by Stephen Sommers (who also worked on Disney's adaptation of Twain's 1884 novel, 1993's The Adventures of Huck Finn). The film 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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