Unsubtle fish-out-of-water hijinks based on a French film, Un Indien Dans La Ville.

City broker Michael Cromwell (Tim Allen), while on a trip to Brazil, is abandoned by his anthropologist wife, Patricia (JoBeth Williams) and returns to make a name for himself in New York.

Fourteen years later, when he decides to marry his new girlfriend (Lolita Davidovitch), he goes back to South America to find his wife and get a divorce.

However, once there he discovers that not only has Patricia been living with an indigenous tribe all this time, but that he also has a 13-year-old son, Mimi-Suku (Sam Huntington).

As the boy is about to undergo the manhood rituals of the tribe, its leader decides that Mimi-Suku must get to know his father first.

So Michael brings the loin-clothed lad to New York, along with all the usual innocent-abroad laughs. Predictable but likeable.