Adventures of Huck Finn 1993  PG, 108 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Drama
Director: Stephen Sommers
Cast: Elijah Wood, Courtney B. Vance, Robbie Coltrane, Jason Robards, Ron Perlman, Dana Ivey, Anne Heche, Curtis Armstrong, Frances Conroy, James Gammon, Paxton Whitehead, Tom Eldredge, Laura Bell Bundy, Mary Louise Wilson, Danny Tamberelli
This production stays close to the first half of Mark Twain's novel. The con-men, "the King" (Jason Robards) and "the Duke" (Robbie Coltrane), are played well with hints of humor as they impersonate royalty and try to swindle two sisters (Anne Heche and Laura Bell Bundy) out of their fortune. Meanwhile, the innocent boy, Huck (Elijah Wood), has escaped from his brutal father, Pap (Ron Perlman), and has joined escaped slave Jim (Courtney B. Vance) on a rafting trip down the Mississippi River. Huck and Jim develop an understanding of each other and then run into "the King" and "the Duke" along the way. It doesn't take long for Huck and Jim to be drawn reluctantly into the schemes of "the King" and "the Duke."
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Jumanji 1995  PG, 100 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Fantasy / Comedy
Director: Joe Johnston
Cast: Robin Williams, Kirsten Dunst, Bradley Pierce, Adam Hann-Byrd, Bonnie Hunt, David Alan Grier, Bebe Neuwirth, Patricia Clarkson, Jonathan Hyde, Malcolm Stewart, Laura Bell Bundy, James Handy, Gillian Barber, Brandon Obray, Cyrus Thiedeke
Alan Parrish (Adam Hann-Byrd) was often beaten up when he was in school in Brantford, New Hampshire, in 1969. Then one day he found a magical jungle board game, Jumanji, and played it with his friend, Sarah (Bonnie Hunt). Now we skip to 1995, and orphans Judy (Kirsten Dunst) and Peter (Bradley Pierce) have moved into Alan's old house, find the Jumanji game, and conjure up Alan (Robin Williams) who has been sucked into the game and remained there for the last 26 years. They track down Sarah so they can end the game. Special effects are amazing as animatronic and computer-generated wild animals thunder through the house and town until the game is finished.
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Surf School 2006  R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Joel Silverman
Cast: Harland Williams, Ryan Carnes, Corey Sevier, Laura Bell Bundy, Miko Hughes, Lee Norris, Sisqo, Angie Ruiz, Taylor Negron, Lin Shaye, Chad Amsel, Diane Delano
The senior trip of a surf safari to Costa Rica is coming up for students at Laguna Beach High School. When a group of misfits is not invited, they decide to crash the party. But, first they must learn to surf. To accomplish their goal, they travel to Costa Rica a week before the event and enroll in a surfing school run by a surf bum (Harland Williams). And a teen comedy ensues.
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| 1. Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)
2. Jumanji (1995)
3. Surf School (2006)
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