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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 3409
Released: April 29, 2003 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
One hundred year-old white man recounts how he was raised by Native Americans, became a gunslinger, and survived the battle at Little Big Horn.
Genre: Westerns
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 29-APR-2003
Media Type: DVD
Description of Little Big Man:
Jack Crabb is the only white survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn and the centenarian shares his story in this picaresque fable of the Old West. In Arthur Penn's adaptation of Thomas Berger's novel, Dustin Hoffman plays Jack from teen years into old age in a bravura performance. And Jack's story is a fantastic one: captured by Indians as a boy, reared as an Indian, shuttling back and forth between the white and Indian worlds. In the process, he befriends everyone from Wild Bill Hickock to George Armstrong Custer and is a gunslinger, a snake-oil salesman, and an Army scout. This is a solid blend of comedy and tragedy, with a strong statement to make about America's treatment of Native Americans without sermonizing. A terrific cast includes Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, and Richard Mulligan. But this show is all Hoffman's. --Marshall Fine
Little Big Man Reviews:
Little Big Man Movie 
2009-10-19 - The disk was fine, but the case was crushed when I received it. The movie played fine.
Replacin' Those VHS 
2009-10-04 - "I shall avert my eyes at the necessary moment!" Mrs. Pendrake to Jack Crabb.
I work with someone who sounds like Faye Dunaway so she got to borrow it before a lot of folks.
The Greatest Movie EVER! 
2009-06-17 - This movie is my all time favorite! It covers all the emotions and is hilarious at times. The acting is great. The scenery is beautiful. The storyline is interesting. What else could you want?
Forrest Gump of the 70s
2009-03-02 - I've loved this movie since I first saw it when I was a tween. Dustin Hoffman is fantastic. The span of history is interesting (but not intended to be historical). And the landscapes and scenery are beautiful.
Upon watching it again in my older years, I think it was the "Forrest Gump" of the 70s. Like Forrest Gump, it was not meant to be historical, accurate, and a true-life saga.
I do agree that some of it seems "cheesy" now. But, our grandchildren are going to think the same thing about Forrest Gump when they see it a few years from now.
Very interesting view of Old West
2009-02-13 - Very interesting twist of the story of George Armstrong Custer and the battle of the Little Big Horn told through the eyes of 130 year old supposed survivor and interesting things that happened to him along the way. Classic....sad and funny at the same time.
