Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book Movie Review 1994

Respectable live-action version from Disney of the Rudyard Kipling tale of Mowgli (Lee), the boy who's raised by a wolf pack after getting lost in an Indian jungle. This time around Mowgli gets to grow up--enough to have a romantic interest in the lovely Kitty (Headey), the daughter of British officer, Major Brydon (Neill). His rival is the supercilious Captain Boone (Elwes), who learns Mowgli knows the location of a hidden jungle treasure. Now Mowgli must count on his friends, Grey Brother the wolf, Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the black panther, to defeat the greedy Boone and win Kitty. Filmed in India.

Distribution

Walt Disney Home Video, 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521, Phone: (818)265-6500, URL: http://disney.store.go.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS
Running time 111 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Adventure Drama, Coming of Age, India, Books to Film: Rudyard Kipling, Jungle Stories, Treasure Hunt, Wild Kingdom, Bears

Screenplay

Stephen Sommers

Cast

Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Sam Neill, Lena Headey, John Cleese

Director

Stephen Sommers

Producer

Edward S. Feldman, Sharad Patel, Buena Vista