MIGHTY JOE YOUNG - BLU-20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

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• Release Year: 1998
• Genre: Action/Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Science-Fiction, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: Theron plays the daugher of an American researcher killed by poachers in Africa. The baby gorilla left in her care grows up to become a hugely tall and broad specimen named Joe, living in the mountains as a mostly unseen legend among people who live there. Along comes an eco-minded emissary (Bill Paxton) from a California sanctuary, who talks the jungle girl into providing safe haven for Joe at the L.A. facility. The transition is not without discomfort, but everything is aggravated via a conspiracy of poachers to get Joe into their own greedy hands. Director Ron Underwood (City Slickers) uses a combination of special-effects techniques to give Joe life and personality, and he succeeds quite effectively. The requisite giant-ape-goes-amok scenes are all in place--a couple of them pretty intense--as is a conclusion that finds the simian hero performing a stunning feat of escalation. Underwood attempts to give a little modern spin to some classic Hollywood conventions regarding wild hearts lost in civilization, and the results are pretty agreeable family fare. --Tom Keogh
• Cast: Bill Paxton, Charlize Theron, Rade Serbedzija, Regina King, Peter Firth, Naveen Andrews, David Paymer, Robert Wisdom, Christian Clemenson, Geoffrey Blake, Lawrence Pressman, Linda Purl, Mika Boorem, Cory Buck, Liz Georges, Ron Underwood, Merian C. Cooper, Ruth Rose, Mark Rosenthal, Lawrence Konner
• Director: Ron Underwood
• Runtime: 1:54
• Company: Disney / Buena Vista
• Media Format: Movie