An utterly tasteless comedy revolving around penis sheaths, distasteful fraud and shameless exploitation. Professor Krippendorf (Richard Dreyfuss) is on the brink of disaster: He's compelled to lecture about the lost tribe he's supposedly been studying with
research funds he actually squandered on day-to-day living expenses. Since he hasn't actually
done any research -- his late wife was the real academic brain of the pair -- he recklessly decides to concoct a fake tribe from New Guinea, using scraps of footage left over from the last research
trip the family actually took. He then merrily embellishes, creating out of whole cloth the lore of the "Shelmikedmu...
Released:
1998
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
94 mins