Tarzan is a 1999 American animated musical adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures on June 18, 1999. The 37th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, it is based on the story Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and is the only major motion picture version of the story Tarzan property to be animated. It was the last bona fide hit before the Disney slump of the early 2000s grossing $171,091,819 domestically and $448,191,819 worldwide, outgrossing its predecessors Hercules and Mulan . At the time of its release, its production... budget of $130 million made it the most expensive animated film ever made, until topped by Disney's own $140 million Treasure Planet in 2002. It was also the first Disney animated feature to open at #1 since Pocahontas. This was the last major box office success of the Disney Renaissance. In the 19th century, an English couple and their infant son escape a burning ship, ending up on land near uncharted rainforests off the coast of Africa. The couple craft themselves a treehouse from their ship's wreckage, but are subsequently killed by Sabor, a rogue leopardess.
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| Release date: | June 17, 1999 |
| Directed by: | Chris Buck, Kevin Lima |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 118 Minutes |
| Producer: | Bonnie Arnold |
| Editor: | Gregory Perler |
| Music by: | Mark Mancina |
| Screenplay by: | Tab Murphy, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White |
| Estimated budget: | $130,000,000 |
| Genre: | Animation, Adventure |