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Splitting Heirs
Overview
Thirty years after the babies of a cook and a duke are switched at birth, there's hell to pay (and a fantastic inheritance.)
Awards:
Main Cast & Crew:
Robert Young - Director
Eric Idle
Rick Moranis
Barbara Hershey
Catherine Zeta-Jones
John Cleese
Sadie Frost
Stratford Johns
Brenda Bruce
William Franklyn
Charu Bala Chokshi
Details
- Format: Blu-ray
- Run Time: 87
- Color Format: Color
- UPC: 683904633996
- Genre: COMEDIES
- Rating: PG-13 (MPAA)
- Release Date: October 2021
Movie Reviews
Synopsis:
"Monty Python" alumni Eric Idle and John Cleese team up in this British farce about a lowly bank employee who tries to claim the noble title that is his birthright -- and the fortune that goes with it. Tommy was switched at birth with an American baby when his mother, the spaced-out Duchess of Bournemouth accidentally abandoned him one wild night during the 1960s. When Tommy discovers the truth about his heritage, years later, he tries, at the urging of a shady lawyer, to murder the feckless fake heir to the Bournemouth estate. Matters are complicated by the fact that the would-be duke just happens to be Tommy's best friend, while the over-sexed Duchess of Bournemouth, who hasn't the foggiest idea that Tommy his really her son, can't keep her hands off him.
Notes:
Shot in Eastmancolor and 1.85 Panavision; prints by Technicolor.
Music performed by W11 Symphonia of the Air. "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" by Jack Judge and Harry H. Williams.
Eric Idle and John Cleese are both "Monty Python" alumni. Rick Moranis starred in the hit comedies "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" and "Honey, I Blew Up the Baby," and is a veteran of "Second City TV."
Rated BBFC 12 by the British Board of Film Censors.
Reviews:
"...A genial entertainment in the Monty Python tradition, a series of madly illogical sequences..." - 05/01/1993 New York Times, p.17
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