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Un indien dans la ville

Un indien dans la ville (An Indian in the city) is a 1994 French film directed by Hervé Palud. The film had a limited English language release under the title Little Indian, Big City. The film was a box office success, grossing $70.5 million worldwide against a production budget of $5.3 million. Though in the United States, it received negative reviews from American critics and grossed just under $600,000.

Un indien dans la ville was later adapted for an American audience under the title Jungle 2 Jungle (1997), set in Manhattan and starring Tim Allen and Martin Short. A tie-in video game for the Game Boy was released only in France.

Steph, a commodities broker living in Paris, wants a divorce from his wife Patricia to marry another woman: Charlotte. However, Patricia has been living among the French Guiana Amazonas Indians for the past 13 years, so Steph travels to the Indian village to meet her and ask her to sign the divorce papers.

When they meet, Patricia tells Steph that they have a teenage son, Mimi-Siku, who has been raised as an Amazonian Indian. Patricia tells Steph she will not sign the divorce papers unless Steph takes Mimi-Siku on a visit to Paris, which he agrees to. In Paris, Mimi-Siku meets the children of Steph's colleague Richard and falls in love with his daughter Sophie.

Part of Un indien dans la ville was shot in Miami, Florida, United States.

Un indien dans la ville opened in France on 14 December 1994. Shortly after its release in France, Disney saw this film as a possibility to attract a family audience in the United States and considered giving it a limited release in select cities. Before releasing it in select cities, Disney decided to release it under their Touchstone Pictures label as they felt this film had some mature themes for an ordinary Disney film.

As opposed to releasing it in the United States with subtitles leaving the original French dialogue in, Disney hired many cartoon voice-over actors to dub the original French dialogue out and substitute it with an English language format. They also gave the film an English name, Little Indian, Big City. Under its new Americanized title and language dubbing, Touchstone released it to a select American audience on March 22, 1996.

Un indien dans la ville grossed 21 million Franc ($3.9 million) in its opening week in France, finishing second behind The Lion King. It remained in second place for two more weeks before moving to number one for four weeks, grossing $35 million in its first 9 weeks and being the highest-grossing film of the year.

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