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On Top of the Whale
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Average Rating
7.0
Based on 12 votes
Release Status
Released
04 Feb 1982
Runtime
01:37
97 minutes

On Top of the Whale

A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia to study the last speakers of a dying language. That language apparently consists of a single word, which therefore means everything.

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