He freaks out when he sees Mimi and Karen sleeping together in a hammock and shows his feelings of anger by threatening to send Karen to an all-girls summer camp, which she immediately takes a disliking to.

Richard is unhappy about Mimi's presence in his home because of his influence over Karen, as well as cooking and eating his prize-winning fish. He paints her face, and gives her a new name, Ukume, as is the custom in his tribe. While staying at the home of Michael's partner, Richard Kempster, Mimi falls in love with his daughter, Karen. On climbing the Statue of Liberty to reach the flame, he is disappointed when he sees that it's not real. As Michael attempts to adapt him to city life, cross-cultural misunderstandings occur when he reverts to customs considered acceptable by his tribe. He wears traditional dress during much of his stay in New York. Matters only worsen when Mimi tries to go to the bathroom in front of her at the fake tree (as is the custom in his tribe), suggests eating her cat, Coco, and releases his pet tarantula, Maitika, in her apartment. Against his protests, Michael brings him to New York.Д¬harlotte is less than pleased about the unexpected visitor, particularly at his loin cloth outfit. He must bring fire from the Statue of Liberty, and looks forward to traveling with his father. The tribal elder gives him a special task, which is to allow him to become a tribal leader one day.

That night, he undergoes the tradition rite of passage of his tribe, who then consider him to be a man. Michael attempts to bond with Mimi in his brief stay with the tribe, and promises to take him to New York 'when he is a man'. He travels there to get her signature on divorce papers, but upon arriving, he discovers he has a 13-year-old son named Mimi-Siku. Wanting to marry his fiancГ©e, Charlotte ( Lolita Davidovich), he needs to obtain a final divorce from his first wife, Patricia, who left him some years earlier she now lives with a semi-Westernised tribe in Canaima National Park in Venezuela. Michael Cromwell is a self-absorbed, successful commodities broker living in New York City.

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