The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story

The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
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Directed byNick Marck
Screenplay by
Based onThe Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Produced byMark H. Ovitz
Starring
Narrated byFred Savage
CinematographyRonn Schmidt
Edited byAlan Baumgarten
Music byRobert Folk
Production
companies
Distributed byBuena Vista Home Entertainment
Release date
  • September 29, 1998 (1998-09-29)
Running time
77 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story is a 1998 American adventure film directed by Nick Marck, produced by Mark H. Orvitz and written by José Rivera and Jim Herzfeld. It is the third film adaptation by The Walt Disney Company of the Mowgli stories from The Jungle Book (1894) by Rudyard Kipling. It stars Brandon Baker, and features the voice work of Brian Doyle-Murray, Eartha Kitt, Clancy Brown, Peri Gilpin, and Sherman Howard.

The film chronicles the life of a boy named Mowgli (Baker) from the time he lived with humans as an infant to the time when he was raised by wild animals and rediscovered humans again as a teenager. It was distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment under the Walt Disney Home Video imprint on September 29, 1998.[1]

  1. ^ Johnson, Zach (April 15, 2016). "Disney Gave The Jungle Book the Live-Action Treatment Twice in the 1990s: A Deep Dive Into the Long-Forgotten Films". E! Online. Archived from the original on April 15, 2016. Retrieved April 15, 2016.