On Top of the Whale
2/4/1982
Imdb: tt0083783
Tmdb: 126420
Popularity: 1.478
Vote: 7/10 (12)

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.