Krippendorf's Tribe

This wildly funny hit comedy stars Richard Dreyfuss (Mr. Holland's Opus, Down And Out In Beverly Hills) as an anthropologist who discovers that primitive culture is as close as your own backyard. Instead of discovering a lost tribe in New Guinea for his research grant, Professor James Krippendorf (Dreyfuss) has blown the last two years...and all $100,000 of the money...rearing his out-of-control kids! Now desperate to bluff his way past growing suspicions and impatient colleagues, including a leggy blonde after his own heart (sexy Jenna Elfman), Krippendorf quickly assembles native-looking huts in his backyard and films the most primitive group he can find: his dysfunctional family. But when a doubting professor (Lily Tomlin - Flirting With Disaster) travels to New Guinea to expose his as a fraud, the laughs spin outrageously out of control all the way to the uncivilized conclusion in Krippendorf's Tribe.