Little Big Man

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Little Big Man
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PG13,2hrs 19min
Release:
1970
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Paramount
Synopsis: Recounting how the West was won through the eyes of a white man raised as a Native American, Arthur Penn's 1970 adaptation of Thomas Berger's satirical novel was a comic yet stinging allegory about the bloody results of American imperialism. As a misguided 20th-century historian listens, 121-year-old Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman) narrates the story of being the only white survivor of Custer's Last Stand. White orphan Crabb was adopted by the Cheyenne, renamed "Little Big Man," and raised in the ways ... Full Synopsis
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Arthur Penn's Little Big Man is an endlessly entertaining attempt to spin an epic in the form of a yarn. Full Review
Metascore
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63
Generally favorable reviews
out of 100
Featured Cast
Jack Crabb
Mrs. Pendrake
Merriweather
Gen. George A. Custer
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Little Big Man: If we could hear what Aaron Carter was thinking at the exact moment this picture was...
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