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The Education of Little Tree(Movie, 1997)

1h 55min | Genre: Drama
The Education of Little TreeRating: 3.6/5 (with 99 votes)
The Education of Little Tree is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by Richard Friedenberg, and starring James Cromwell, Tantoo Cardinal, Joseph Ashton and Graham Greene. It is based on the controversial 1976 fictional memoir of the same title by Asa Earl Carter (writing pseudonymously as "Forrest Carter", a supposedly Cherokee writer) about an orphaned boy raised by his paternal Scottish-descent grandfather and Cherokee grandmother in the Great Smoky Mountains. Writer-director Friedenberg co-adapted the screenplay for the film alongside Earl Hamner Jr. and Don Sipes, shortly after completing his adaptation for Robert Redford's A River Runs Through It (1992). In the United States, the film was given a limited release through Paramount Pictures on Christmas Day 1997, less than one week after the release of Paramount's record-breaking box-office hit Titanic (1997), and grossed $323,411 domestically. Friedenberg was nominated for a Humanitas Prize for Best Feature Film, while Cardinal and Greene both won First Americans in the Arts Awards for their performances. The film also nomi... ()
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About The Education of Little Tree

Little Tree is an 8-year-old Cherokee boy, who, during the time of the depression, loses his parents and starts to live with his Indian grandma and grandpa and learn the wisdom of the Cherokee way of life.

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Additional Information

Production country: Canada
Plays in: Tennessee
Original language: Italian (IT)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 10 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 12/25/1997
Producer: Jake Eberts
Screenwriter: Richard Friedenberg
Composer: Mark Isham
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Die Abenteuer des Indianerjungen Little Tree"
"Indianersommer - Die Abenteuer des Indianerjungen Little Tree"
"Indianersommer - Die Abenteuer des Indianerjungen Little Tree (1997)"
"La magica storia di un piccolo indiano"

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