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Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, also known as The Jungle Book, is a 1994 American adventure film co-written and directed by Stephen Sommers, produced by Edward S. Feldman and Raju Patel, from a story by Ronald Yanover and Mark Geldman. Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures, it is a live-action adaptation of the Mowgli stories from The Jungle ...
The Jungle Book: Directed by Stephen Sommers. With Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey, Sam Neill. Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of Mowgli, the orphaned jungle boy raised by wild animals, and how he becomes king of the jungle.
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- Adventure, Family, Fantasy
- Stephen Sommers
- 1994-12-25
The Jungle Book (1994)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110213/
- 2 min
- 122.8K
- films411
Here's the bold and sweeping epic adventure that is guaranteed to thrill action seekers of all ages! Jason Scott Lee stars as Mowgli, a boy raised by wild a...
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1900, Mowgli is the five-year-old son of Nathoo, a wilderness guide, with whom he accompanies on a trip in the jungles of their native India and has Grey Brother as a pet wolf cub. Mowgli becomes close friends with a British girl named Katherine Anne "Kitty" Brydon, whose father, Colonel Geoffrey Brydon, commissioned the hunt. When Shere Khan attac...
Main cast
1. Jason Scott Lee - Mowgli 2. Cary Elwes- Captain William Boone 3. Lena Headey- Katherine "Kitty" Brydon 4. Sam Neill- Colonel Geoffrey Brydon 5. John Cleese- Dr. Julius Plumford 6. Jason Flemyng- Lt. John Wilkins 7. Ron Donachie- Sgt. Harley 8. Sean Naegeli- Mowgli, age 5 9. Joanna Wolff- Kitty Brydon, age 5 10. Stefan Kalipha - Buldeo 11. Anirudh Agrawal - Tabaqui 12. Liza Walker- Alice 13. Rachel Robertson- Rose 14. Natalie Morse- Margareta
Trained animals
1. Baloo- Casey 2. Bagheera- Shadow 3. Grey Brother- Shannon 4. King Louie- Lowell 5. Shere Khan- Bombay Kaa is portrayed by both a computer-generated and a real anaconda. Other trained animals were monkeys, elephants, camel, horses, zebu, and wolves.
Mowgli does not wind up in the jungle during infancy, but as a five-year-old.Shere Khan is less villainous here: he only hates humans because he believes they're the evil ones, while Khan actually cares about the jungle and its inhabitants.Grey Brother is a pet, though he does wind up getting stuck in the jungle with Mowgli, and growing up there.Nathoo is Mowgli's father.The scene where a young-Mowgli calms an elephant could be a reference to the related story Toomai of the Elephants.Buldeo is included in this film, making this his first Disney appearance since he was canceled from the cartoon one.It is presumed Baloo was meant to be an orphaned bear-cub since he was portrayed as one at the same time as Mowgli was young and there's no mother bear at all. This could be based on the spin-off s...Strangely, there's a scene with ring-tailed lemurs, which like orangutans, aren't found in India (though India was connected to Madagascar in prehistoric times).Dec 25, 1994 · PG. Release Date: December 25, 1994. Genre: Adventure, Family, Live Action, Romance. Raised by wild animals since childhood, Mowgli is drawn away from the jungle by the beautiful Kitty. But Mowgli must eventually face corrupt Capt. Boone, who wants both Kitty's hand and the treasures of Monkey City – a place only Mowgli can find.
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Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. NEW. When his father is killed by a jungle tiger, Mowgli (Jason Scott Lee) is orphaned and grows up in the wild, raised by animals. Years later, the bracelet ...
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- Kids & Family, Adventure, Romance
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