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Overview

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Director:
Sam Weisman
Writers (WGA):
Jay Ward (characters)
Dana Olsen (story)
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Release Date:
16 July 1997 (USA) more
Tagline:
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Plot:
George grows up in the jungle raised by apes. Based on the Cartoon series. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(22 articles)
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Even though it's a Disney movie... more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Brendan Fraser ... George of the Jungle

Leslie Mann ... Ursula Stanhope

Thomas Haden Church ... Lyle van de Groot

John Cleese ... An Ape Named 'Ape' (voice)

Richard Roundtree ... Kwame, Traveling Sidekick
Greg Cruttwell ... Max, van de Groot's Sidekick Thug

Abraham Benrubi ... Thor, van de Groot's Sidekick Thug
Holland Taylor ... Beatrice Stanhope, Ursula's Mom
Kelly Miller ... Betsy

John Bennett Perry ... Arthur Stanhope, Ursula's Dad
Michael Chinyamurindi ... N'Dugo
Abdoulaye NGom ... Kip
Lydell M. Cheshier ... Baleto (as Lydell Cheshier)
Keith Scott ... Narrator (voice)

Spencer Garrett ... Male Guest at Party
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG for crude humor and mild violence, language and sensuality.
Runtime:
92 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Spanish
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

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Trivia:
Dana Olsen's screenplay began as a spec script titled "Gorilla Boy" (Olsen's nickname for his son). While shopping the screenplay to the studios, he intentionally avoided Disney because he knew they had the film rights to George of the Jungle, and figured they wouldn't be interested in another Tarzan-type spoof. As it turned out, Disney didn't have a script for the movie and happily looked at (and bought) Olsen's story. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: The branch that George Jr. walks into has a visible seam running down it from the molding process. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Narrator: Deep in the heart of Africa is a place no man has ever entered. The place that belongs to the lion, the elephant and the ape. A place known as the Bukuvu. Travellers flying overhead can only glimpse at its many marvels, its sparkling rivers, its lush veldts, its billowy cloud formations and its hidden mountains. Never fear, my friends. All was not lost. Scraped and boo-booed, they searched high and low, but they never recovered their most precious cargo.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in George of the Jungle 2 (2003) (V) more
Soundtrack:
My Way more

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8 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
Even though it's a Disney movie..., 29 April 2001
6/10
Author: cToTh-2 from Saskatchewan, Canada

Even though it's a Disney movie and can be viewed by the whole family, the movie was quite funny. Not Naked Gun funny, but still funny nonetheless. It is definitely worth the price of rental or purchase, so long as you like silly/unrealistic circumstances, talking animals, etc.

For those of you keeping score, this movie was much funnier than Dudley Do-Right, which had some similarities.

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