Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book is a 1994 Disney film based on the Mowgli stories in The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, and is a live-action remake of the 1967 film The Jungle Book. This time, the animals do not speak. The film stars Jason Scott Lee as Mowgli and Cary Elwes as his main adversary. It was directed by Stephen Sommers. The original music score was composed by Basil Poledouris. Mowgli is the five year old son of Nathoo, an Indian tour guide. Nathoo is guiding a group of soldiers in the jungle. Among them is Colonel Geoffery Brydon, his five year old... daughter Katherine "Kitty" Brydon and Dr. Julius Plumford. Mowgli and Kitty are extremely close friends and often give signs of a young romance. Kitty gives Mowgli a bracelet which once belonged to her mother. The group soon learn that Shere Khan, the mighty tiger, is on the move, because he knows some of Brydon's men have broken the jungle law by killing several animals for fun, to which Shere Khan opposes. Later that night, Shere Khan attacks the camp, killing Nathoo and two of Brydon's men. Mowgli and his pet wolf cub are lost in the confusion - Mowgli is now assumed to be dead.
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| Release date: | December 23, 1994 |
| Directed by: | Stephen Sommers |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 111 Minutes |
| Producer: | Raju Patel, Rajendra Kumar, Yash Johar, Edward S. Feldman, Mark Damon |
| Editor: | Bob Ducsay |
| Music by: | Basil Poledouris |
| Cinematography: | Peter Robertson, Juan Ruiz Anchia |
| Screenplay by: | Stephen Sommers, Ronald Yanover, Mark Geldman |
| Estimated budget: | $27,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | The Jungle Book |
| Genre: | Adventure |