Film

King of the Jungle

2000 · 1h 27m · Drama · Thriller

He was just a kid in a man's body until his mother's killer made him a man with a gun.

IMDb

5.8

Rotten Tomatoes

24%

Metacritic

45

Seymore is a young man with the mind of a child. He loves three things in life: basketball, sneaking out for cigarettes, and his mother. But all life's simple pleasures are brutally torn from him when he witnesses his mother gunned down by a neighborhood punk. Now Seymore must overcome the child within as he rises up to fight for some kind of justice. It's a fight that will take him out into the streets where there are few friends and many enemies -- and one of them is a killer who wants him silenced.

John Leguizamo

Seymour

Rosie Perez

Joanne

Julie Carmen

Mona

Cliff Gorman

Jack

Michael Rapaport

Francis

Marisa Tomei

Det. Costello

Justin Pierce

Lil' Mafia

Annabella Sciorra

Mermaid

Judy Reyes

Lydia Morreto

Ian 'Blaze' Kelly

Dead-Eye

Rosario Dawson

Veronica

Scott Cohen

Officer Norman Turner

Richie Perez

Pucho

Rafael Nunez

Basketball Kid #1

Malcolm Barrett

Basketball Kid #2

Ray Vincente

Colon

• Seth Zvi RosenfeldDirector · Writer
• Robin O'HaraProducer
• Hans ZimmerExecutive Producer
• Fortunato ProcopioDirector of Photography
• Harry Gregson-WilliamsOriginal Music Composer

Release date

October 12, 2000

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

R

Revenue

$27

Genres

Drama, Thriller