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Little Indian, Big City (1994)

Little Indian, Big City poster
Original title
Un Indien dans la ville
Directed by
Hervé Palud
Genre
comedy film, adventure film, melodrama
Country
France
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 632 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A French businessman goes to the Amazon to finalize a divorce and discovers he has a teenage son who was raised in the jungle. He brings the boy back to Paris, leading to culture clash comedy as the son adapts to city life.

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What happens

Un indien dans la ville (An Indian in the city) is a 1994 French film directed by Hervé Palud. The film had a limited English language release under the title Little Indian, Big City. The film was a box office success, grossing $70.5 million worldwide against a production budget of $5.3 million. Though in the United States, it received negative reviews from American critics and grossed just under $600,000. Un indien dans la ville was later adapted for an American audience under the title Jungle 2 Jungle (1997), set in Manhattan and starring Tim Allen and Martin Short. A tie-in video game for the Game Boy was released only in France. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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