Carl Michael Lindner, David Ogden Stiers, Elaine Stritch

A university professor is paid to find the last undiscovered tribe of New Guinea. When he fails to find the tribe, he comes home, and rather than admitting that he's failed, he gives a lecture about t...( read more  read more... )he Shelmikedmu tribe (named after his children: Shelly, Mike, and Edmund). He then has his family dress like "Shelmikedmus", so that he can film them as proof of his discovery.

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PG-13, 94 min.

Directed by: Todd Holland

Release Date: February 27, 1998

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DVD Release Date: June 4, 2002

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  • March 10, 2008
    Boy, I hope it's a good movie. Yeah, it's not.
  • August 4, 2007
    Ooga-Booga! Richard Dreyfuss is hilarious in this movie when he invents his own lost tribe. A fun comedy.
  • July 14, 2007
    Quite how we're expected to swallow the idea that a collection of eminent anthropologists would be fooled by Richard Dreyfuss' wife and kids running around a middle american suburb in grass skirts is beyond me, but he's his usual likeable self in an inconsequential but inoffensiv...( read more)e family comedy.
  • November 18, 2006
    Yeah, it's pretty stupid.
  • March 9, 2009
    Maybe not the best movie but it's clever and hilarious.
  • June 6, 2009
    Hazah for Richards Dreyfuss.
  • January 10, 2009
    No thankyou - Not interested.
  • December 8, 2008
    no thanks not my thing
  • November 1, 2008
    Anthropologist James Krippendorf (Richard Dreyfuss) & his wife named Jennifer (Barbara Williams) bring their three children: Shelly Krippendorf (Natasha Lyonne), Mickey Krippendorf (Gregory Smith), & Edmund Krippendorf (Carl Michael Lindner) along during their much-enjoyed search...( read more) in New Guinea for a lost tribe. Anthropologist James Krippendorf meets Anthropologist Veronica Micelli (Jenna Elfman) into false documentary after she learns the truth.
  • September 4, 2008
    Super funny, a great family movie.

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