Taglines: Get a little savage.
Jungle 2 Jungle movie storyline. Michael Cromwell (Tim Allen) is a self-absorbed, successful commodities broker living in New York City. Wanting to marry his new fiancée Charlotte (Lolita Davidovich), he needs to obtain a final divorce from his first wife Patricia (JoBeth Williams) who left him some years earlier. Patricia now lives with a semi-Westernised tribe in Canaima National Park, Venezuela. Michael travels there to get her signature on divorce papers, but upon arriving, discovers that he has a 13-year-old son named Mimi-Siku (Sam Huntington).
Michael attempts to bond with Mimi-Siku in his brief stay with the tribe and promises to take him to New York “when he is a man.” Michael is also given a new name, Baboon, as is a custom in the tribe. That night, Mimi-Siku undergoes the traditional rite of passage of his tribe, who then considers him to be a man. The tribal elder gives Mimi a special task: to become a tribal leader one day, Mimi must bring fire from the Statue of Liberty and he looks forward to traveling with his father. Against his own protests, Michael brings Mimi-Siku to New York with him. Michael works as a trader at the World Trade Center in building 7.
Jungle 2 Jungle is a 1997 American comedy film directed by John Pasquin, produced by Walt Disney Pictures and TF1 Films Productions, and starring Tim Allen, Martin Short, Lolita Davidovich, David Ogden Stiers, JoBeth Williams, and Sam Huntington as Mimi-Siku. It is an American remake of the 1994 French film Un indien dans la ville (also known as Little Indian, Big City). Jungle 2 Jungle’s plot follows the original film fairly closely, with the biggest difference being the change in location from Paris to New York.
Jungle 2 Jungle (1997)
Directed by: John Pasquin
Starring: Tim Allen, Martin Short, Lolita Davidovich, David Ogden Stiers, JoBeth Williams, Sam Huntington, Valerie Mahaffey, Leelee Sobieski, Carole Shelley
Screenplay by: Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon
Production Design by: Stuart Wurtzel
Cinematography by: Tony Pierce-Roberts
Film Editing by: Michael A. Stevenson
Costume Design by: Carol Ramsey
Set Decoration by: Beth A. Rubino
Art Direction by: Tim Galvin
Music by: Michael Convertino
MPAA Rating: PG for some mild violence and language.
Distributed by: Buena Vista Pictures
Release Date: March 7, 1997
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