Tom and Huck is a 1995 Disney film starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Brad Renfro, Michael McShane, and Amy Wright; it is based on Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In the film, mischievous young Tom Sawyer witnesses a murder by the vicious Native American known as "Injun Joe". Tom becomes friends with Huckleberry Finn, a boy with no future and no family, and is forced to choose between honoring a friendship or honoring an oath, because the town alcoholic is accused of the murder. The movie was released in the U.S. and Canada on December 22, 1995. The film opens with Injun Joe ... accepting a job from Doctor Robinson . Then Tom Sawyer is running away from home. He and his friends ride down the Mississippi River on a raft, but hit a sharp rock, which throws Tom into the water. His friends find him washed up on the shore, and Tom finds it was Huck Finn who carried him to safety. Huck learns of an unusual way to remove warts - by taking a dead cat to the graveyard at night. There they witness Doctor Robinson being murdered by Injun Joe.
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| Release date: | December 22, 1995 |
| Directed by: | Peter Hewitt |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 97 Minutes |
| Producer: | Stephen Sommers, Laurence Mark |
| Screenplay by: | Stephen Sommers, Mark Twain |
| Genre: | Comedy, Adventure |