Tom Sawyer is a 2000 direct-to-video

Direct-to-video

Direct-to-video is a term used to describe a film that has been released to the public on home video formats without being released in film theaters or broadcast on television...

 animated film from MGM

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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. It is an adaptation of Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...

's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the Town of "St...

, with a cast of anthropomorphic animals instead of humans. The characters' voices are generally performed by country music

Country music

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 singers.

Critical reception

Harlene Ellin of The Chicago Tribune gave a negative review, saying that it "stray[ed] too far from Twain." An uncredited review in the Wichita Eagle was also unfavorable, calling it a "shallow" interpretation of Twain's work.

Despite the reviews, it has received a good cult following.

Character comparisons to original

Character in the original story	Character in the movie	Species
Tom Sawyer	Same	Cat Cat The cat , also known as the domestic cat or housecat to distinguish it from other felids and felines, is a small, usually furry, domesticated, carnivorous mammal that is valued by humans for its companionship and for its ability to hunt vermin and household pests...
Huckleberry Finn	Same	Fox Fox Fox is a common name for many species of omnivorous mammals belonging to the Canidae family. Foxes are small to medium-sized canids , characterized by possessing a long narrow snout, and a bushy tail .Members of about 37 species are referred to as foxes, of which only 12 species actually belong to...
Rebecca "Becky" Thatcher	Same	Cat
Judge Thatcher	Same	Cat
Amy Lawrence	Same	Cat
Sid	Same	Cat
Mr. Dobbins	Same	Turkey Turkey (bird) A turkey is a large bird in the genus Meleagris. One species, Meleagris gallopavo, commonly known as the Wild Turkey, is native to the forests of North America. The domestic turkey is a descendant of this species...
Injun Joe	Injurin' Joe	Grizzly Bear Grizzly Bear The grizzly bear , also known as the silvertip bear, the grizzly, or the North American brown bear, is a subspecies of brown bear that generally lives in the uplands of western North America...
Muff Potter	Mutt Potter	Dog Dog The domestic dog is a domesticated form of the gray wolf, a member of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. The term is used for both feral and pet varieties. The dog may have been the first animal to be domesticated, and has been the most widely kept working, hunting, and companion animal in...
Aunt Polly	Same	Cat
Dr. Robinson	Deputy Bean	Dog

Cast

• Rhett Akins
  Rhett Akins
  Thomas Rhett Akins Sr. is an American country singer and songwriter. Signed to Decca Records between 1994 and 1997, he released two albums for the label , followed by 1998's What Livin's All About on MCA Nashville. Friday Night in Dixie was released in 2002 on Audium Entertainment...
  
   as Tom Sawyer- the protagonist
  Protagonist
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• Mark Wills
  Mark Wills
  Daryl Mark Williams is an American country music artist, best known professionally as Mark Wills. Signed to Mercury Records between 1996 and 2003, he released five studio albums for the label — Mark Wills, Wish You Were Here, Permanently, Loving Every Minute and And the Crowd Goes Wild — as well...
  
   as Huckleberry Finn- the deuteragonist
  Deuteragonist
  In literature, the deuteragonist is the second most important character, after the protagonist and before the tritagonist. The deuteragonist may switch from being with or against the protagonist depending on the deuteragonist's own conflict/plot.-History:Greek drama began with simply one actor,...
  
  
• Hynden Walch
  Hynden Walch
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   as Becky Thatcher (speaking)- the tritagonist
  Tritagonist
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• Lee Ann Womack
  Lee Ann Womack
  Lee Ann Womack is an American country music singer and songwriter, who is best known for her old fashioned-styled country music songs that often discuss subjects such as cheating and lost love....
  
   as Becky Thatcher (singing)
• Clea Lewis
  Clea Lewis
  Clea Lewis is an American actress, best known for her television role as Ellen's annoying friend Audrey Penney in Ellen DeGeneres' sitcom Ellen.- Other notable roles :...
  
   as Amy Lawrence (speaking)
• Alecia Elliott
  Alecia Elliott
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   as Amy Lawrence (singing)
• Betty White
  Betty White
  Betty White Ludden , better known as Betty White, is an American actress, comedienne, singer, author, and former game show personality. With a career spanning seven decades since 1939, she is best known to modern audiences for her television roles as Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and...
  
   as Aunt Polly
• Dean Haglund
  Dean Haglund
  Dean Haglund is a Canadian actor known for the role of Richard "Ringo" Langly, one of the Lone Gunmen on The X-Files. Haglund is also a stand-up comedian, specializing in improvisational comedy In addition to The X-Files, he played the voice of Sid in Tom Sawyer, Haglund also portrayed Langly in...
  
   as Sid- the secondary antagonist
  Antagonist
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• Richard Kind
  Richard Kind
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   as Mr. Dobbins
• Hank Williams Jr. and Kevin Michael Richardson
  Kevin Michael Richardson
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   as Injurin' Joe- the main antagonist
  Antagonist
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• Don Knotts
  Don Knotts
  Jesse Donald "Don" Knotts was an American comedic actor best known for his portrayal of Barney Fife on the 1960s television sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, a role which earned him five Emmy Awards...
  
   as Mutt Potter
• Waylon Jennings
  Waylon Jennings
  Waylon Arnold Jennings was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. Jennings began playing at eight. He began performing at twelve, on KVOW radio. Jennings formed a band The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a D.J on KVOW, KDAV and KLLL...
  
   as Judge Thatcher
• Dee Bradley Baker
  Dee Bradley Baker
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   as Rebel the Frog
• Pat Corley
  Pat Corley
  Pat Corley was an American actor. He was known for his role as bar owner Phil on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown from 1988–1996. He also had a recurring role as Chief Coroner Wally Nydorf on the television drama Hill Street Blues...
  
   as Sheriff McGee
• Marty Stuart
  Marty Stuart
  John Martin "Marty" Stuart is an American country music singer-songwriter, known for both his traditional style, and eclectic merging of rockabilly, honky tonk, and traditional country music...
  
   as Reverend
• Thom Adcox
  Thom Adcox-Hernandez
  Thomas Herman Adcox is an American actor and voice actor, perhaps best known for his role as Brian in the prime-time soap opera Falcon Crest and the voice of Felix the Cat in The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat.-Life and career:...
  
   as Deputy Bean
• Sheryl Bernstein
• Jennifer Hale
  Jennifer Hale
  Jennifer Hale is a Canadian-born American actress and singer best known for her voice over work in video games like Grandia II, the Mass Effect trilogy, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Tales of Symphonia, the Metroid Prime trilogy, the Metal Gear Solid games, Brütal Legend, and Disney's...
  
  
• David Kaufman
  David Kaufman (actor)
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Soundtrack

• "Leave Your Love Light On"
• "Can't Keep a Country Boy Down"
• "Hook, Line, and Sinker"
• "Houseboat Painting Song"
• "One Dream"
• "Friends for Life"
• "Light at the End of the Tunnel"
• "Never, Ever, and Forever"