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Tarzan (1999 movie) - Definition and Overview |
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Tarzan is a Walt Disney animated film adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel, Tarzan of the Apes, released in the United States on June 18, 1999.
Plot
When his shipwrecked parents are killed by a leopard named Sabor, an infant is left all alone high atop his family's African jungle tree house. His isolation isn't for long, however, as Kala, a friendly gorilla, finds and adopts the boy, naming him Tarzan. Having recently lost her baby to Sabor, Kala is happy to have another child, but while the silverback patriarch of the ape family, Kerchak, allows her to raise Tarzan, he says that the human will never be his son.
Voice cast
Characters
- Tarzan - "T" is a likeable young man who just so happens to be raised as an ape by his adoptive gorilla family.
- Jane Porter - Jane is a proper British young lady who wishes to see the world and sketch native wildlife.
- Terk - Terkina (aka Terk) is a playful young gorilla who is Tarzan's best friend and "big sister."
- Tantor - He is a neurotic and paranoid elephant who is not only best friends with Tarzan, but also with Terk.
- Cecil Clayton - Clayton is a scheming "great white hunter" type who desires to kill or capture the gorillas and receive a generous bounty for each.
- Professor Porter - Aging Archimedes Q. Porter is Jane's father whose only wish is to study gorillas.
- Kala - Being Tarzan's adopted mother, Kala is a friendly gorilla who only wants what's best for him.
- Kerchak - This silverback gorilla overprotects his ape family, even against poachers.
- Sabor - Sabor is the female leopard who killed Kala's baby and orphaned Tarzan.
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