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Box office. $7,571,115. Krippendorf's Tribe is a 1998 American comedy film directed by Todd Holland and based on Frank Parkin 's 1985 novel of the same name. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Jenna Elfman, Natasha Lyonne, and Lily Tomlin. Its plot follows Professor James Krippendorf (Dreyfuss), an anthropologist who, with the help of his three ...
- Charlie Peters
- Dean Cundey
- Krippendorf's Tribe, by Frank Parkin
- Todd Holland
Feb 27, 1998 · The scene in "Krippendorf's Tribe'' involves the backyard fakery of a primitive circumcision ritual. But I am getting ahead of the story. The movie stars Richard Dreyfuss as James Krippendorf, an anthropologist who has gone to New Guinea, failed to find a lost tribe and returned to his campus, having spent all of his grant money. Now it is time ...
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In Theaters At Home TV Shows. After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf (Richard Dreyfuss) must produce hard evidence of the existence of ...
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- Todd Holland
- PG-13
- Richard Dreyfuss
Shortly afterward, Mrs. Krippendorf dies, and her family return to the U.S.A.; where Krippendorf, rather than confess his failure to the university, invents a fictitious tribe, named the 'Shelmikedmu' after his daughter Shelly (Natasha Lyonne) and sons Mickey (Gregory Smith) and Edmund (Carl Michael Lindner).
After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a heretofore undiscovered New Guinea tribe. Grass skirts, makeup, and staged rituals transform his three troubled children into the Shelmikedmu, a primitive culture whose habits enthrall scholars.
- 94 min
Krippendorf's Tribe. A professor given a grant to document a tribe in New Guinea finds himself far more immersed in his family's antics than in research. Desperate to appease his impatient colleagues, he attempts to pass his own offspring off as a wilderness tribe! 569 IMDb 5.1 1 h 34 min 1998. X-Ray 16+.
