This junior version of "Crocodile" Dundee was another vehicle for Home Improvement star Tim Allen that failed to make much of a dent in the UK market. Allen plays a New York financier who discovers he has a teenage son (Sam Huntington) who's been brought up by an Amazonian tribe. The child's arrival in New York is the cue for the usual "fish out of water" gags. It's an amiable but predictable affair, and Martin Short is wasted in a silly Russian Mafia subplot.

Uptight New York City executive, Michael Cromwell, pursues his soon-to-be ex-wife to South America and returns home with the son he never knew he had—a boy raised in a tribal village in Brazil. Armed with only his blowgun, the 13-year-old Mimi-Siku discovers that the world outside his jungle home is indeed a strange place.