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Jungle 2 Jungle
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Directed by	John Pasquin
Produced by	Richard Baker
Written by	Bruce A. Evans Raynold Gideon
Starring	Tim Allen Martin Short JoBeth Williams Lolita Davidovich Sam Huntington David Ogden Stiers Bob Dishy Valerie Mahaffey Leelee Sobieski Frankie J. Galasso Luis Avalos Carole Shelley Dominic Keating Rondi Reed Oni Faida Lampley
Music by	Michael Convertino
Cinematography	Tony Pierce-Roberts
Editing by	Michael A. Stevenson
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures
Release date(s)	March 7, 1997
Running time	105 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
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Jungle 2 Jungle is a 1997 Disney comedy film starring Tim Allen, Martin Short and Sam Huntington. This film was produced by Walt Disney Pictures and TF1 Films Productions, and originally released to movie theaters in 1997.

Michael Cromwell (Allen) is a self-absorbed, successful commodities broker living in New York City. Wanting to marry his new fiancée, 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 primitive tribe in the Amazon jungle. Cromwell travels there to get her signature on divorce papers, but, upon arriving, discovers he has a 13 year-old son, Mimi-Siku (Huntington).

Cromwell attempts to bond with Mimi-Siku in his brief stay with the tribe, but against his protests, is coerced into bringing Mimi-Siku back with him to New York so he can "prove himself a man" (his tribe's chief gave him the task of getting fire from the Statue of Liberty). As Cromwell attempts to adapt Mimi-Siku to city life, hilarity ensues while Mimi-Siku continually reverts to his primitive ways.

Mimi-Siku and the daughter, Karen (Leelee Sobieski), of Cromwell's partner, Richard Kempster (Short), fall in love. They engage in a short, harmless romance, but it causes distress for Kempster's family who fears Mimi-Siku may harm her. Eventually, Mimi-Siku, Kempster's family and Cromwell succeed in defeating a gang of Russian mobsters (leader played by David Ogden Stiers) intent on maiming Kempster (incorrectly thinking he has cheated him on a business deal). This event brings the families together and allays the Kempster's fears regarding Mimi-Siku's nature.

Shortly after this event, Mimi-Siku returns to the Amazon jungle, disheartened with his trip to New York and his inability to obtain "real fire" from the Statue of Liberty.

Shortly after his return, however, Cromwell and Kempster's family join him there for a vacation. It's also implied that Mimi-Siku's and Karen's teen romance resumes.

Jungle 2 Jungle is an American remake of the successful French movie Un indien dans la ville (Little Indian, Big City). The plot follows the original fairly closely, except that the original was set in Paris rather than New York, and Mimi-Siku climbed the Eiffel Tower rather than the Statue of Liberty.

• Jungle 2 Jungle at the Internet Movie Database