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PG-13. YouTube Movies & TV. 179M subscribers. Subscribed. Like. Share. Instead of documenting a previously unknown tribe in New Guinea, Professor James Krippendorf (Richard Dreyfuss) has...
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Plot. Respected anthropologist James Krippendorf and his wife, Jennifer, bring their three children along during their much-enjoyed search in New Guinea for a lost tribe. The search fails, despite the family's best efforts. After Jennifer's death back in the U.S., James falls into academic stagnation, having spent all his foundation grant money ...
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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!
Feb 27, 1998 · Krippendorf has promised home movies of the lost tribe, which, in desperation, he has named the Shelmikedmu, after his children Shelly, Mike and Edmund. At home, he fakes the footage, dressing his children up like New Guinea tribesmen and intercutting their romps in the backyard with actual footage from his trip.
Feb 27, 1998 · PG-13 02/27/1998 (US) Comedy , Family 1h 34m. User. Score. Play Trailer. He's discovered the wildest tribe in his own backyard! Overview. 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.