Little Big Man

Summary: Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.

Release Date: December 23, 1970

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Director: Arthur Penn

Writers: Thomas Berger

, Calder Willingham

Runtime: 2 h 19 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Cinema Center Films, Stockbridge-Hiller Productions

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), CBS/Fox, Encore Home Video, Fox Video, Paramount Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 31,559,552

Box office:

Budget:$15MDomestic:$31.6MWorldwide:$31.6M

Adaptation/remake:

based on novel

-9%

The Rotten Tomatoes audience rated this -9% lower than the critics.

96%87%

The Metacritic audience rated this 13% higher than the critics.

Metacritic Meta:

63/100

Metacritic User:

76/100

22%13%

22% of the Stars & Main Cast are Female.

13% of the Stars & Main Cast are "diverse."

White75%Asian12.5%Jewish12.5%

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Possibly woke elements:

polygamy,race relations,interracial,racism

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Race	White	Latino	Total	Visuals	Info
Kairos	16		16		A third party facial recognition software company we used to maintain objectivity. Upload images to the facial recognition demo page to check the veracity of our data set. Or use their API and do a bulk peer review if you'd like. Source: https://www.kairos.com/demos
Ethnic	1		1		This is the most reliable data source for accurate ethnic breakdowns of famous people. Often the information is crowdsourced by users and they cite all their sources (family trees, obituaries, census archives, etc.) on the bottom of the page. The only issue is converting their ambiguous and inconsistent verdicts into quantifiable variables. Source: https://ethnicelebs.com/
Forebears		1	1
Total	17	1	18
Cast Percentages	94.44%	5.56%	100%	{"name":"Cast Percentages","series":[{"name":"White","y":94.44,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":5.56,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":""}
U.S. Population (1970) Percentage	83.2%	4.4%		{"name":"U.S. Population (1970)","series":[{"name":"White","y":83.2,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Arab","y":0,"color":"#DF5353"},{"name":"Asian","y":0.76,"color":"#90ee7e"},{"name":"Black","y":11.1,"color":"#f45b5b"},{"name":"Indian","y":0,"color":"#7798BF"},{"name":"Indigenous","y":0.4,"color":"#aaeeee"},{"name":"Latino","y":4.4,"color":"#eeaaee"},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":0.3,"color":"#55BF3B"},{"name":"Jewish","y":2.63,"color":"#ff0066"}],"prefix":""}	Source: US Census (Note: Racial and ethnic categories overlap so the sum will not equal 100%.)
U.S. Population (1970) Representation	+11.24	+1.16		{"name":"U.S. Population (1970)","series":[["White",83.2],["Latino",4.4]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":94.44,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Latino","y":5.56,"color":"#eeaaee"}]}
U.S. Buying Power (2000) Percentage	81.25%	6.26%		{"name":"U.S. Buying Power (2000)","series":[{"name":"White","y":6413300000000,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":0,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":276400000000,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":609100000000,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":0,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":40300000000,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":494000000000,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":60300000000,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":0,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	Source: Selig Center, University of Georgia
U.S. Buying Power (2000) Representation	+13.19	-0.7		{"name":"U.S. Buying Power (2000)","series":[["White",81.25],["Latino",6.26]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":94.44,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Latino","y":5.56,"color":"#eeaaee"}]}
U.S. Average Individual Income (2018) Percentage	88.52%	2.1%		{"name":"U.S. Average Individual Income (2018)","series":[{"name":"White","y":10626145426557,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":0,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":107671207435,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":954439515485,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":0,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":36655932132,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":252624064000,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":26509532664,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":0,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	Source: IPUMS-CPS, University of Minnesota
U.S. Average Individual Income (2018) Representation	+5.92	+3.46		{"name":"U.S. Average Individual Income (2018)","series":[["White",88.52],["Latino",2.1]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":94.44,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Latino","y":5.56,"color":"#eeaaee"}]}
World population (1970) Percentage	22.24%	5.59%		{"name":"World population (1970) ","series":[{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":7013299168,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":20451021783,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":4349332203,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"White","y":81397248059,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":32855563079,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":130848803366,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":21514753976,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":66200835040,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":1372128062,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":""}	NOTE: ZR is the first organization to ever create a global buying power divided by race. Essentially we just took data from CIA.gov FactBook, UN Population Estimates, and The World Bank's Population Estimates / Purchasing Power Parity Per Capita.
World population (1970) Representation	+72.2	-0.03		{"name":"World population (1970) ","series":[["White",22.24],["Latino",5.59]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":94.44,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Latino","y":5.56,"color":"#eeaaee"}]}
World Buying Power Percentage	36.48%	9.35%		{"name":"World Buying Power","series":[{"name":"White","y":3010602822170000,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":771525888400000,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":91700962050000,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":526264226360000,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":174285727610000,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":148984454560000,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":526400066100000,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":2431392083750000,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":572687873900000,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	NOTE: ZR is the first organization to ever create a global buying power divided by race. Essentially we just took data from CIA.gov FactBook, UN Population Estimates, and The World Bank's Population Estimates / Purchasing Power Parity Per Capita.
World Buying Power Representation	+57.96	-3.79		{"name":"World Buying Power","series":[["White",36.48],["Latino",9.35]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":94.44,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Latino","y":5.56,"color":"#eeaaee"}]}
Notes		Many Latinos check "White" or "Other" on the Census. So this overlaps with "Mixed" race and "White." Also, when there was a discrepancy with the percentage listed on the Wikipedia table and our calculated numbers, the Wiki table's numbers were used. Likewise, when the population total was missing from the Census pdf, the estimate was calculated using the percentage from the Wiki table. NOTE: It turns out that the reason America doesn't have a separate "Latino" race is because the League of Latin American Citizens protested against discrimination towards Mexicans and got themselves to legally be considered "White." Check the research links in our Google Doc for more info.

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