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Splitting Heirs is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Robert Young released in USA on 30 april 1993 with Eric Idle
Splitting Heirs (1993)
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Add to a movie listSplitting Heirs is a 1993 British film starring Eric Idle, Rick Moranis, Barbara Hershey, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cleese and Sadie Frost. The film was directed by Robert Young, and features music by Michael Kamen. It was entered in the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
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The movie centres on the aristocratic family of the Dukes of Bournemouth (England), upon which misfortune has befallen throughout history, leading it to believe itself cursed. The most recent heir, Thomas Henry Butterfly Rainbow Peace, was left in a restaurant as an infant in the 1960s, by the time his parents remembered him, he had disappeared. Meanwhile, in the 1990s, Tommy Patel (Eric Idle) has grown up in an Asian/Indian family in Southall, never doubting his ethnicity despite being taller than anyone else in the house, fair-haired, blue-eyed, light-skinned - and not liking curry. From the family corner-shop he commutes to the City, where he works for the Bournemouth family's stockbroking firm, handling multimillion-pound deals.Actors
Eric Idle
(Tommy Butterfly Rainbow Peace Patel)
Rick Moranis
(Henry Bullock)
Barbara Hershey
(Duchess Lucinda)
Catherine Zeta-Jones
(Kitty)
John Cleese
(Raoul P. Shadgrind)
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