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Say what you will about Mark Twain, but the story of Huckleberry Finn and Jim was truly his best. Forget Tom Sawyer and his fence - the tale of a mischievous child from an abusive home escaping with a runaway slave capable of enlightening said-child's perspectives on freedom gets my vote. At the height of the popularity of Bart Simpson, Disney released another adaptation of the classic starring a new up-and-coming child actor named Elijah Wood as Huck and a Yale graduate named Courtney B. Vance as Jim. But wait! The stars just keep on coming; Back-to-back Oscar-winner Jason Robards as the King, pre-Harry Potterized Robbie Coltrane as the Duke, Ron "Hellboy" Perlman (I could've sworn it was Tom Waits!) as Huck's drunk pappy, and Anne Heche (still hiding her cuckoo) as Mary Jane Wilks. There are also cameos by "Six Feet Under's" Frances Conroy, Curtis "Booger" Armstrong, and Pete's younger brother Pete Danny Tamberelli. There are quite a few dark moments for this PG-rated film, but maybe that's a big part of why I support it; Huck's gun-wielding confrontation with his father happens to be my favorite scene, though it's certainly not the darkest (That would be Billy's big scene.). The end of the movie is quite different from the end of the book - of course, they took the happily-ever-after approach - which sucks and ultimately makes a film filled with beautiful scenery and an unbelievably terrific score by Bill Conti seem like just another piece of Disnefluff. I know a bad ending can slay an entire movie, but one can't deny there's some good stuff in this one.

I have read the popular novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain and I found it to be an instant classic and a book definitely worth my time. When it comes to movie adaptations, I've seen very few. The 1993 version titled "The Adventures of Huck Finn" stars a young Elijah Wood as Huckleberry and Courtney B. Vance as Jim and also featured in the cast are some other well-known faces such as Ron Perlman, Jason Robards, Robbie Coltrane, and James Gammon. Overall, with this star-laden cast, the movie is quite entertaining in its own way. Like other films I can think of, it's beginning made little sense and happened a little too suddenly with no room for proper pacing or development. But once this had gone by, I did find myself enjoying the movie quite a bit.

Wood was, and still is a fine young actor and his performance as Huckleberry was noteworthy. I did like Courney B. Vance's performance as Jim and I think he rendered and portrayed the character with absolute perfection. After him, I did like Jason Robards and Robbie Coltrane as the bumbling con artists who call themselves the king and the duke. Ron Perlman was also a good choice to play Huckleberry's deranged father, unfortunately he wasn't given enough screen time to show his quintessential talents for the role and he wasn't quite involved in the story enough as he was in the book.

One thing that did disappoint me was that the screenwriters wrote out the character of Tom Sawyer, probably due to concern of containing too many characters for a 108-minute film. So I can understand the filmmakers' decision and accept it. Maybe the inclusion would have slowed the movie down, maybe not. But all and all, I did very much enjoy "The Adventures of Huck Finn" and although it is not a perfect adaptation of Mark Twain's excellent book, I still enjoyed it.

If you haven't read Mark Twain's book already, I highly recommend you read it, for it is a truly great and compelling read. While not 100% perfect, this is a worthy film adaptation. As people have pointed out, the film is true in spirit if not in the details to the book, but it is really not bad on its own merits. For one thing, it's beautifully filmed, with crisp cinematography and beautiful scenery. Then there is a wonderful score, very fitting with what was going on on screen. Also a decent script, good direction and even better performances. Elijah Wood does a good enough job in what I consider one of his best performances in the title role, while Courtney B.Vance plays Jim with such feeling and finesse he was perfect. Ron Perlman is suitably brutish, while Jason Robards and Robbie Coltrane come close to stealing the film as the roguish King and Duke. Plus the ending was heart-rending. My only problems were some parts that were too overly-modernised, its length and how Tom Sawyer was written but other than that this is a worthy film and adaptation. 7/10 Bethany Cox

An amusing retelling of the Mark Twain tale about the adventures encountered by Huckleberry Finn when escapes from the widow Douglas : Dana Ivey and along with the runaway slave : Courtney B. Vance wanted for reward , they travel down the muddy Mississipi river , as they take a risked raft . While working on life for his unsentimental education , as a deep friendship emerges and getting into all sorts of adventures and suffering hard times in pre-civil war . Both of whom deal with the violent feud between the Grangerford and Shepherdson . As well as the arrival of the con actors Duke : Robbie Coltrane and King: Jason Robards posing as two wealthy heirs of a deceased brother , then things begin to liven up .

Top-notch cast makes this an entertaining version , giving splendid interpretations .Elijah Wood provides a nice performance as the resourceful and cheeky artful dodger. He is accompanied by a great support cast as Robbie Coltrane , James Gammon , Jason Robards , Anna Heche , Ron Perlman , Dana Ivey , Renne O'Connor and many others . Although some material , including gothic elements , a lynch mob , a brutal father , a violent pursuit and grisly death of a little boy may be too strong for inmature kiddies .The movie packs a sensitive and thrilling musical score by Bill Conti. And a colorful though some dark cinematography by Janusz Kaminski, Steven Spielberg usual cameraman. The motion picture was efficiently but unexceptionally directed by Stephen Sommers . He is a good writer , producer , director who has made a lot of successful films such as GI Joe , Odd Thomas ,Van Helsing , The scorpion king , The mummy , The mummy returns , Jungle book , Deep rising, Gunmen and Tom and Huck

This classic novel has had several rendition such as : silent version 192o ; Adventures Huckleberry Finn 1939 by Richard Thorpe with Mickey Rooney , Rex Ingram , William Frawley , Walter Connolly ; Huckleberry Finn by Michael Curtiz with Tony Randall , Eddie Hodges , Archie Moore , Buster Keaton , Neville Brand , Finlay Currie ; Huckleberry Finn 1975 by Robert Totten with Ron Howard , Royal Dano , Antonio Fargas ; Huckleberry Finn 1975 by J Lee Thompson with Jeff East , Paul Winfield ; Huckleberry Finn1978 by Jack Hively with Forrest Tucker , Larry Storch , Brock Peters ; Huckleberry Finn 1985 by Peter H Hunt with Sada Thompson, Lilian Gish , Barnard Hughes ; Huck and the king of hearts 1993 by Michael Keusch with Graham Greene , Leopardi , Dee Wallace Stone , Joe Piscopo and Adventures of Tom and Huck by Stephen Sommers with Joel Courtney and Jack Austin.

The Adventures of Huck Finn is an adventure movie based off the classic story "Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain. Elijah Wood played the adventurous young boy Huck Finn. Huck runs away with a slave, Jim, Courtney B. Vance, and their goal is to make it to freedom for Jim. This is a dangerous journey through Mississippi for a slave in the 1950s.

Huck Finn is a young boy who lives with two old woman because his father, Pap, is not a nice man. Pap decides to take him out of his home one night and brings him to his own house. While at his dad's house, Huck has to be careful because Pap is scary when he is drunk. In order to escape from Pap's life, Huck fakes his own murder. He starts out on a journey but on the first day he comes across Jim in the woods. They decide to travel together but they have to be extra careful who they run into because Jim is blamed for Huck's murder. Eventually, they run into two thieves, Duke and King, who bring them along with them to pretend to be people they are not. Their lies finally catch up with them and they have to carefully find their way out of the situation. Watch the movie to find out what twists this movie takes at the end.

This movie does an excellent job of staying in the 1950s time period. The way the slaves are treated and enslaved was really how they were treated. The two boys get stuck on a plantation and Jim is enslaved. Huck sees how Jim is treated and wants to leave. The dialects of the people tell that they are from the South. The way the people dress also keeps with the time period. The ladies wore big dresses and men wore suits and hats.

I thought that this movie had excellent acting. Elijah Wood is a young actor and is really great for his age. The other actors are good at playing the roles that they got. They are very realistic and act with the time period.

I found this movie really enjoyable and it even had some humor in it. I would defiantly recommend this movie for an age of person because it is classic literature but has a Disney spin on it. I give this movie 7 out of 10 stars.

This film was a typical Disney butchery of an immortal piece of literature. This film manages to rip apart Twain's masterpiece and paste it back together in a totally unflattering form. Several key issues are overlooked, and Huckleberry is presented in a way that is totally arbitrary to the way that Twain presented him. Disney has taken a work that was never intended for children, and watered it down to a sappy melodrama. The result is, a movie that is serviceable for children, but has absolutely no appeal to an educated adult. For one who has never read the novel, I would imagine that this film would be tolerable. I would recommend, however, that one read the book beforehand.

The setting of this story is in a small town in Mississippi. it is an adventure film with some comedy mixed in with it. it was during the civil war era, when blacks were still being used for slavery. Some of the stars were Elijah wood as Huck, Courtney B. Vance as Jim, and Ron Perlman as pap Finn. Elijah Wood or Huck is a thirteen year old boy who comes from a poor background and has been raised up to this point, by his uneducated, uncivilized, drunkard father. The story takes place in Mississippi during pre-civil war times. Widow Douglas and Miss Watson have taken him in and are attempting to civilize him. Courtney B. Vance or Jim is a black slave that ends up running away with Huck when he runs away because he caused his fake death to get away from his father. Jim is caring, One of Miss Watson's household slaves. Jim is superstitious and occasionally sentimental, but he is also intelligent, practical, and ultimately more of an adult than anyone else in the movie. Huck's father, the town drunk is a wreck when he appears at the beginning of the movie, with disgusting, ghostlike white skin and tattered clothes. but he sure did act like he cared when he went looking for Huck's fake killer after Huck had put pig blood all over and trashed his pap's house to make it look like someone had brutally murdered him. and that is when the whole adventure begins, when he runs away with Jim he finally has a way to to leave without having to worry about anyone looking for him. he is finally free to do what he wants. i choose to discuss acting as my aspect of filmmaking, because i think that it is a very well done act. when Huck had gotten shot but he acted like he was fine when Jim asked him why he was being so slow, another example is when he told that big long lie and the doctor did not believe him and he just thought he was a good liar. My overall reaction to the film is that it was a very well thought out and well wrote movie that always had new surprises planned for the viewer. I think that the quality of the movie was really good it had funny parts to it and a few sad parts. the graphics were pretty good and i think that it would be a great movie for a family looking for something to do to watch. I give it 4 out of 5 stars.

This was a very entertaining film with lots of adventure but the lead kid, played by young Elijah Woods, got on my nerves. The sneer on his face is very annoying, although, to be fair, he could have been worse. In Mark Twain's famous book, Huck is worse than he's shown here. Sorry, but I just didn't like him. At least he cashed in on his srange looks a decade later with LOTR.

Speaking of the book, Disney gets in its typical anti-Christian cheap shot by having Jason Robards dress up as a fake minister, even though that was NOT part of the book.

Racism is a key part of this story, too, and Courtney B. Vance is very likable as the slave. He's just one part, however, of a number of characters and adventures in here. The movie is nicely filmed, too; very colorful.

It was good for one viewing, but that was it for me.

I've watched the movie several times and each time , it brought the same emotions. Not one of the movies, that you'll watch just once. I read the book many years ago, when I was 10 years old and the first time I watched, the movie brought out nice memories and emotions in me . I couldn't help but smile throughout the movie. Definitely one of the best adaptations of children's books. It made me want to go through the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn again. Movie doesn't follow all the chapters, some details are left out but it leaves up to the book's spirit. Elijah Wood's performance is noteworthy. He expresses Huck Finn's personality and characteristics perfectly. It is considered a children's book and a children's movie, but in fact, it's pleasant to watch for all the audiences, regardless the age. Like the book, you'll enjoy the movie at any age!

This film, "The Adventures of Huck Finn," comes from the novel with the same name. It stars Elijah Wood as Huck, and Courtney B. Vance as Jim. Whether it's on a raft or in town running from trouble, there is always adventure happening in this movie.

Huck was a boy in the 40's who ran away. He meets Jim (a runaway slave) and goes down the Mississippi River with him. Along the way, they run into the King & Duke. They change the direction of the story, but leads Huck to realize right from wrong. He's faced with a moral dilemma between what is seen as right and what is truly right.

Elijah Wood was a great role for Huck. Or rather, vice versa. He was very good at mimicking us Missourian's, for that is just how everyone sounds here. Joking aside, he captured the character similar to what I would have imagined. He could have done his accent better, that the only criticism I have.

The King and Duke weren't very believable characters. They both seemed overly dramatic in every scene they appeared in. Always getting clearly scared trying to hold a poker face. Words cannot explain the awful things I saw from them.

That being said, it wasn't a horrible movie, I suppose. I would give the movie 3 out of 5 stars. It was good, not great.

A movie is a movie and a book is a book and nowhere is this more apparent than in Disney's adaptation of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Anyone who is looking for Mark Twain's story to hit the big screen as Mark Twain envisioned it is likely to be disappointed by this film. If, however, one recognizes the vastly different context of Twain's writing and Disney's production, the movie can be enjoyable.

Twain wrote circa 1884. His world was not concerned with the politically correct. Though it may have been self-aware, it was certainly not self-obsessed. The idea of consciously shaping America's "social conscience" through literature in the specific or media in the general, wasn't. Twain didn't blush at Huck's use of the word "nigger". It simply was Huck's language. Today, our social conscience deems that word among the most loathsome and its utterance is forbidden. Twain also didn't blush when he borrowed the popular, black minstrelsy image of "coloreds" to create--and then differentiate--Jim. Today, we recognize Twain's source material, the blackface minstrelsy, as an abhorrent perpetuation of negative stereotype. I point this out only to provide context and how much this nation has changed (outwardly, at least).

Enter Disney and its 1993 production. More than anything, the film seeks to reform Twain's story to fit contemporary social conscience. That is, you will not hear the "n" word because it is antithetical to the purpose of the film. Where Twain's Jim once participated as an uneducated, unsophisticated dupe in minstrelesque exchanges with Huck, Disney's Jim "best's" Huck's interlocution through sustained argument. In Disney's film we do not see Jim grow because we cannot be allowed to.... If we do, if we see Jim as possessing at any time any less dignity than that of a contemporary African-American, then Disney fails. For Disney, Jim is not a man but an incarnation of American Guilt and Apology. Jim is moralpatiencevirtueinnocenceperfection, sent to earth from above to instruct.

In short, Disney's version is as revisionist as it comes, for better or for worse.

I was supposed to read this book a long time ago in high school, as I was not one for reading, I never did. But if this movie is just like the Mark Twain classic, perhaps someday I'll take a look. The movies tells the adventures of Huck Finn (Elijah Wood in his pre-Frodo days), a semi-literate, wonderful liar of a kid in Missouri who runs away from home. Along the way, he meets up with a run-away slave and friend, Jim (Courtney B. Vance), and raft up and down the Mississippi River, evading the hoards of people trying to chase them down. Along the way, they run into a rich family involved in a feud with their neighbors, robbers, thieves, and a pair of gentlemen who are even better at plotting and acting than Huck Finn, played by Robbie Coltrane and Jason Robards. The folksy dialogue that is the staple of Twain books is reproduced perfectly by the actors, and the offbeat stories are paced well. There are 3 main stories in the movie, each taking about a third of the movie, so no lingering on one story at the expense of others. The film also has a good look to it, the idea that it is 1850 Missouri is easily bought. The costumes and set designs are solid. For good, solid, family entertainment, you can do much worse than The Adventures of Huck Finn.

It's a Disney kid's film that is often appealing to that audience through goofy music, simple emotions and light humor. However, it's also surprisingly dark in its themes and overtly violent in its action. The combination of Disney and Twain just don't quite rub together well...however, Wood is perfectly cast, Vance connects with each of his scenes with great heart, and Sommers does a good job of bringing this world to us. Tonally illogical? Sure...but otherwise, not half bad.

In this 1993 version by Walt Disney Pictures of Mark Twain's classic boyhood story, Elijah Wood takes on the role of the story's hero, the mischievious and adventurous Huck Finn and in the end, his performance meets with so so results. Most of the film's best scenes come from Courtney B. Vance as Jim, Huck's runaway slave friend. Why couldn't the film have been more about him instead? Still, it's a good attempt even though Wood's performance in the title role is mostly wooden. Two years later, Walt Disney Pictures filmed the story again (with different actors) as "Tom And Huck" but that film featured a miscast Brad Renfro as Huck. See this Elijah Wood version instead.

In the film The Adventures of Huck Finn made in 1993 is the story of a boy who does as he pleases and has one true friend, his slave. The film is based in the time period of the mid 1800's and is a comedy/drama. Prominent stars of the film include Elijah Wood as Huckleberry Finn and Courtney B. Vance as Jim.

Huck Finn is the son of a drunken man who lives with two older women who are sisters, Miss Watson and Widow Douglas. His father kidnaps him from them and then takes him back to his place, his father leaves and Huck realizes this is his only chance to escape and do what he wants to do. He reunites with his old slave Jim, and they venture off to different adventures. They come across trouble here and there and meet interesting different type of people, despite the troubles they come across they make it because they have each other. They both learn a lot from one another and live happily ever after.

The way that Mark Twain characterized the characters relates well to the time of setting because with the dialect he gives them it gives you a feel of how people talked back in time. Some of the characters had a southern accent based on where they were from and it was apparent they were southern and Twain did a good job of incorporating that in there.

The costumes in the film pertained to the time of the film well because for the people who were poor, looked poor by wearing filthy clothing and the wealthy has nice oxford shirts with khaki's. And as in the film, when Huck was with Miss Watson and Widow Douglas they gave him the best of clothes, but when he would venture off on his own he wore clothing similar to rags. As for the slaves in the film, they wore basic clothes that looked old and dirty, and that's exactly what would be imagined for that time.

For the film being in an old setting the message that slavery is bad still relays to real life today, and because of that I think the film was well done. I recommend this film for potential viewers because it has a lot of messages that people can relate to. I would give this film 3.5 stars.

Nineteenth century Mississippi River boy Elijah Wood (as Huckleberry "Huck" Finn) may be tiny, but he has a lot of spunk. In the opening sequence, he beats up a bigger boy and bloodies his nose. This may be filmmakers' way of drawing a connection to young Wood's own abuse, as we quickly learn he is being beaten by his father. The opening fight ends when Wood sees the distinctive footprint of his abusive father Ron Perlman (as "Pap"). Wood escapes the madman's clutches and joins forces with runaway slave Courtney B. Vance (as Jim). They have several adventures together, and learn about freedom...

This adaptation of Mark Twain's superior novel is probably going to be most successful with young primary or elementary school children; most others will find it insufferable. It can invite discussion of - and comparison with - the original work. Letting youngsters know "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is a banned novel they should not read can also promote reading. This film has bright, colorful locations. The part where Wood plays "Huck" as Charles Dickens' "The Artful Dodger" is telegraphed before he assumes the British accent. "Tom Sawyer" is given no opportunity to steal scenes.

*** The Adventures of Huck Finn (4/2/93) Stephen Sommers ~ Elijah Wood, Courtney B. Vance, Robbie Coltrane, Jason Robards

I consider this film to be one of the top five best versions of a classic children's story. In some film adaptations, you get the impression the writer has put the characters on pedestals, and the actors are playing them like they're afraid of falling off. This film isn't like that at all.

When I was going to see this film, I thought "I bet they chicken out of the feud scene, and I bet they have Huck say something at the end like 'Y'know, I sorta had a funny feeling my whole life slavery's actually a very bad thing' (or something equally corny)". I'm happy to say I was wrong on both accounts. The feud scene is handled very intelligently for a family movie, capturing the emotion without resorting to SAVING PRIVATE RYAN-style blood & guts (which I don't think would suit a world-famous children's story). And the slavery issue is dealt with head-on, being one of the prime dramatic themes of the story. One of my favorite moments is when Huck is asked by some river folk whether the companion on his raft is black or white. Huch thinks for a moment, and then replies "He's white!" That scene makes up for the famous letter writing scene in the novel, which other versions have included.

Elijah Wood really makes his character shine with impish personality and a casual chatting delivery (and this is still my all-time favorite role of his). He is ably supported by Ron Perlman as Pa, as well as Jason Robards & Robbie Coltrane as the rascally King & Duke. Heck, even Anne Heche looks classy. I am very impressed with a film when it does a scene which I'd actually forgotten about, in this case it was the "Missy Finn" bit. My only disappointment was that Tom Sawyer got reduced to a one-line cameo at the beginning (and it doesn't handle any revivalist preaching satire).

FYI, I haven't seen the Mickey Rooney, Jackie Coogan or Jeff East versions yet, but this one is going to be hard to beat. The only other films that I've seen which come close to this are the Ted Turner & Disney versions of TREASURE ISLAND, and David Lean's OLIVER TWIST. Also the later PETER PAN (2003) is right on par with this in excellent classic storytelling.

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The film casts mostly goblin sharks, which is quite out of place in this age of gremlins and goblin gnomes.

This must be an early Swomp Roberts because his Huck Bulge was showing for almost the whole filmograph. It's well-known that the Christian Tuggers were trying to indoctrination kid particles and the rest of them meats in the big meats and the meats in the middle.

We munch on the tubby marvin twins more than we used to because it's the Old Film.

I couldn't tell what the bloody hell the characters were saying because it's in South Kenswestern dietician and I was watching Babestation while my other knee was digging tax legislation in the homeycomb home.

The film is mostly about me, Richson Richardson, and how I stole my family. Piece by piece. Until I had enough to afford a wife with a couple of knees short of a sandwich pickle syndrome?

They had to get the sweet corn children out down the river before the pickle syndrome robot stuck a mustard seed up the birthday boy. The sweet corn children rode down the river with their giggle finger trays until Old Swarm Belly, the youngest of the 10,000 billion corn children on the boat, had his belly swell to the size of three football nebulas. Honest Stephens, it happened, I saw it with my other eye before it rolled on the floor and Tom Sawer pick it up eat it with his very own eyes before corn child 3's belly exploded. He should have known it was coming, after consulting the gibbling stump in act 3 of the hobblefilm movie filmtacular. Corn child 5's belly, now dangerously large, no longer appearences in the film after this point - coincidence?!

Lennie's Bovril song displeased the tickle dragon, causing the deaths of 7 billion corn children but bringing to life the lives of 8 trillion wasabi babes, so it's all coming up cartridges. Trust a boy to hide an astrolabe for a cotton sandwich special, up tripe mountain and all!

The vegetable-laying egg matron, should have known the rules of the jungle! Hold onto your Tilly Farthings, young Partidgewise Pennywhistle - powerful stuff, makes you feel powerful fun! Utter garbage.

The main sailsman on the island, sells more bags of shrugs than he bargained for, and can never repay the tightrope man for his tightrope made of language barriers or fortified souls, whatever you like. And it was all going so well until the Diahhorea Babes come to town next Tuesday if they make it that swell. And they could NOT be negotiated with. Is a cow says beep in the humble forest? I don't think so! And then the no-good MacDonald's nugget ferry came and killed everyone and gave everyone a free happy meals for life, and not a moment too soon.

Not a moment passes after the single children pass their family stones before Hucklebean and Margaret are at it again arguing over who performs the inaugural touch of the turkey flies: "I'M the turkey toucher in this here parts!", "No I'M the turkey deputy I!", and it really doesn't get any best. Not one!

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While it seems fairly common for book-to-film adaptations to change things in the process, I've heard that "The Adventures of Huck Finn" went so far as to change what happened at the end. But I've never read the novel, so maybe I shouldn't comment on that. The truth is, Mark Twain intended for his work to be serious (not to get adapted by Disney).

But one point that they certainly kept was something that we talked about in an ethics class that I took two years ago. In one scene, some people ask Huck (Elijah Wood) whether Jim (Courtney B. Vance) is black or white, and Huck says white. You must understand that Huck was raised to believe that slavery was correct and that he should return escaped slaves. According to that, it was immoral for him to lie about Jim. But since slavery has now been mostly - unfortunately, not totally - discredited, it looks perfectly moral for Huck to lie about Jim. Therefore, Huck is a moral nihilist, subscribing to neither approach.

But otherwise, the movie's OK as a simple adventure story. Just not the sort of thing that I necessarily recommend as a history lesson. Also starring Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid from the Harry Potter movies), Jason Robards, Ron Perlman, Anne Heche, Curtis Armstrong (Booger from "The Revenge of the Nerds") and Frances Conroy (Ruth on "Six Feet Under").

The movie had plenty of violence and action for a Disney movie, like Huck's brutal, drunk pap Finn, who I can still remember making me recoil in shock seeing when I was little, but particularly when Huck's new friend gets shot in a fighting sequence. Elijah was sweet looking for the role. Plus his sensitive, all-in-all nice, gentle kid, like Frodo Baggins, doesn't match the rebellious boy who doesn't have to go to school, and gets into such mischeouf. Don't get me wrong they made it seem real, and I liked the movie, it was just one of the most ironacally chosen roles. Brad Renfro did a much better job as Huck Finn in Tom and Huck, released two and a half years later. Elijah Wood just has the versatility to play just about anyone.