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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.
- 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.
After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf (Richard Dreyfuss) must produce hard evidence of the existence of a heretofore undiscovered New...
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- Todd Holland
- PG-13
- Richard Dreyfuss
A brief prologue shows anthropologist James Krippendorf (Richard Dreyfuss), with his wife and children, befriending native villagers in Papua New Guinea, where they ask the villagers about an undiscovered tribe, rumored to exist nearby; but learn from the villagers, there is none.
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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!
Krippendorf's Tribe. Buy or rent. PG-13. YouTube Movies & TV. 179M subscribers. Subscribed. Like. Share. Instead of documenting a previously unknown tribe in New Guinea, Professor James...