King of the Jungle

King of the Jungle

87 mins | Drama, Thriller | Oct. 12, 2000

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.

King of the Jungle

87 mins | Drama, Thriller | Oct. 12, 2000

King of the Jungle
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.
IMDb rating 5.8
Producers
Original title King of the Jungle
Directors Seth Zvi Rosenfeld
Writers Seth Zvi Rosenfeld

Cast

John Leguizamo

as Seymour

Rosie Perez

as Joanne

Julie Carmen

as Mona

Cliff Gorman

as Jack

Michael Rapaport

as Francis

Marisa Tomei

as Det. Costello

Justin Pierce

as Lil' Mafia

Annabella Sciorra

as Mermaid

Judy Reyes

as Lydia Morreto

Ian 'Blaze' Kelly

as Dead-Eye

Rosario Dawson

as Veronica

Scott Cohen

as Officer Norman Turner