The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father (1996) (TV)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Directors:

Michael Schultz
Deepa Mehta

Writers:

Frank Darabont (writer) &
Matthew Jacobs (writer) ...

Release Date:

16 June 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Family

Plot Keywords:

Reference To Aristotle | Adventurer | Indiana Jones | Fedora | Young Versions Of Characters

Awards:

Won Primetime Emmy.

Cast

Corey Carrier	...	Indiana Jones (age 10)
Sean Patrick Flanery	...	Indiana Jones (age 20)
Lloyd Owen	...	Prof. Henry Jones, Sr.
Ruth de Sosa	...	Anna Jones
Margaret Tyzack	...	Helen Seymour
Michael Gough	...	Leo Tolstoy
Robyn Lively	...	Nancy
Eva Océnasová	...	Mrs. Vlasov
Jana Altmanová	...	Mrs Tolstoy
Milan Gargula	...	Russian Priest
Milan Gal	...	Russian Novitiate
Jan Kuzelka	...	Inn Keeper
Josef Nedorost	...	Militia Man 1
Alan Fordham	...	Militia Man 2
Ladislav Demetr	...	Gypsy

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

English | Russian | Greek

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Filming Locations:

Athens, Greece

Company:

Amblin Entertainment

Trivia:

Fourth and last Young Indy TV movie shown on The Family Channel, originally shot as three different episodes for a proposed third series of "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" (1992). The full length episode from which the 'bookend' sequence with Sean Patrick Flanery comes, was announced to be included in Chapter 19: "The Winds of Change", while the reedited main part of this movie starring Corey Carrier, would become Chapter 4: "Travels with Father". Both chapters are as yet unreleased.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: Though the story takes place no later than 1910 (the year of Toltoy's death) the map linking sequence between the Russia and Greece segments show frontiers established after the II Balkan War (1913). Bulgaria's shape in particular is pretty clear.

Quotes:

Anna Jones: [scolding their son] Henry, we are guests in this house.
Prof. Henry Jones, Sr.: Guests, Junior. Not rampaging barbarians.

Movie Connections:

References "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Paris, October 1916 (#2.16)" (1993)

Pleasant journey

After the extremely dull Perils of Cupid this next adventure of Young Indiana Jones is a helluva lot more interesting. His first adventure takes place in Russia, where his parents are staying in a castle with a bunch of important people. Indy gets into trouble and his dad gets furious. Tired of his parents' rules he runs away and meets an old man who just so happens to be Leo Tolstoy, the famous author of War and Peace.

As they both try to flee from their families across the Russian countryside both Indy and Tolstoy learn from each other and develop quite a touching relationship. In the end they realize that going home is the best thing to do, but not before an interesting trade.

In the second half Indy travels to Athens where his tutor takes ill. His mother whisks her away to a spa leaving Indy all alone with his dad. Not knowing how to deal with the boy on his own, Henry Jones Snr. takes Indy to all the important historical sites Athens has to offer. At first he's strict and hard, as per usual, but as soon as Indy starts to take in all of the lectures he lightens up and they have their own crazy adventure after a flock of sheep eat their clothes while skinny dipping.

I've said it before but Lloyd Owen really does do a good impersonation of Sean Connery and, eye color aside, he convinces as a younger version of the Henry Jones Snr. we saw in The Last Crusade.

It still doesn't have any definitive imagery, unlike the movies, but makes for entertaining viewing on a wet afternoon nonetheless.