Splitting 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.. It was released in Britain as a PAL VHS, which is still in circulation; it has not been released on DVD in Britain, but is released in Region 1 in America . It is also available in an all-region, NTSC version in Australia by Umbrella Entertainment . The movie centres on the aristocratic family of the Dukes of Bournemouth , 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 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.
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| Release date: | 1993 |
| Directed by: | Robert Young |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 87 Minutes |
| Producer: | Red Morris, 4th Baron Killanin |
| Editor: | John Jympson |
| Music by: | Michael Kamen |
| Cinematography: | Tony Pierce-Roberts |
| Screenplay by: | Eric Idle |
| Genre: | Comedy |