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Mark Twain’s eternal boys, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, ride again as modern 30-something misfits in Adam and Aaron Nee’s cheery heist caper for literary nerds.
“The Good Lord Bird”: A new take on Huck Finn James McBride's new novel is an impressively deep comedy about a cross-dressing slave boy in John Brown's army ...
The directors of Band of Robbers, brothers Aaron and Adam Nee, have set out to modernize the stories of Mark Twain but end up with a cutesy caper that isn’t as memorable as you might hope. Here ...
Being honest about Huckleberry Finn goes right to the heart of whether ... It is much easier for a tragedy or an epic to transcend the time in which it was written than it is for a comedy to ...
Ultimately a comedy tied around the neck of a slave, “Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” delivers the sparkle of the mighty Mississippi but the emotional depth of a brackish ...
Huck Finn and Jim set out from Hannibal, Mo. on a July afternoon in 1835 aboard a raft. But this is not Mark Twain's tale: In Norman Lock's brief and brilliant fabulist novel The Boy in His Winter ...