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| Directed by | Richard Friedenberg |
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| Based on | The Education of Little Tree by Asa Earl Carter (as Forrest Carter) |
| Produced by | Jake Eberts |
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| Cinematography | Anastas Michos |
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| Music by | Mark Isham |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 112 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $323,411[1] |
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.[2][3]
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 nominated for three Young Artist Awards, winning two—one for Ashton's performance, and a Jackie Coogan Award for best feature.
- ^ a b "The Education of Little Tree". Box Office Mojo. Flixster. Retrieved November 22, 2018.
- ^ Levy, Emanuel (10 January 2006). "The Education of Little Tree". EmanuelLevy.com. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
- ^ Weinraud, Bernard (December 17, 1997). "Movie With a Murky Background: The Man Who Wrote the Book". The New York Times.