Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
A mischievous young boy, Tom Sawyer, witnesses a murder by the deadly Injun Joe. Tom becomes friends with Huckleberry Finn, a boy with no future and no family. Tom has to choose between honoring a friendship or honoring an oath because the town alcoholic is accused of the murder. Tom and Huck go through several adventures trying to retrieve evidence.
- based on novel or book
- mississippi river
- male friendship
- restless youth
- rural americana
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jonathan Taylor Thomas
Tom Sawyer
Brad Renfro
Huck Finn
Eric Schweig
Injun Joe
Charles Rocket
Judge Thatcher
- Amy Wright — Aunt Polly
- Michael McShane — Muff Potter
- Marian Seldes — Widow Douglas
- Rachael Leigh Cook — Becky Thatcher
- Lanny Flaherty — Emmett
- Courtland Mead — Sid
- Peter MacKenzie — Mr. Sneed
- Heath Lamberts — Schoolmaster Dobbins
- William Newman — Doc Robinson
- Joey Stinson — Joe Harper
- Blake Heron — Ben Rodgers
- Directed
- Peter Hewitt
- Written
- Stephen Sommers, David Loughery
Production
- Rating
- 5.3 / 10 · 219 ratings
- Studio
- Walt Disney Pictures, Painted Fence Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
