Idle who wrote the screenplay is well suited to being…. Splitting Heirs was a movie that I remember enjoying as a kid. I know I liked it because I never missed a showing when it aired on TV. It might have had a lot to do with Rick Moranis as well. It actually holds up quite well unlike this movie. Eric Idle stars as Tommy Patel, a stockbroker in England who lives a very simple life with his Indian family.
Courtesy of the Monty Python universe thank you, Eric Idle and John Cleese I haven't laughed so much, so often, so long, so loud in years! Still contains one of my all time favorite opening credit songs written by Idle for the film Catchy as all get out.
Someone came and stole my whole life away-ay-ayyy". I still think there are some superb comedic moments throughout, "Tommy we have some news for you I had always considered this to be vastly underrated and wacky lost 90's classic and today its completely forgotten even by majority of Python fans!
Likeable mistaken identity comedy as Rick Moranis and Eric Idle star as two people who believe they are the heir to a royal estate. Catherine Zeta-Jones and Barbara Hershey co star. Some amusing scenes especially when Eric Idle plots to kill Rick Moranis to take his rightful place. Eric Idle is playing a full ass adult. Letterboxd is an independent service created by a small team, and we rely mostly on the support of our members to maintain our site and apps.
Sergeant Richardson Cal MacAninch Gita Amanda Dickinson Barmaid Chris Jenkinson Police Constable Keith Smith Photographer Stephan Grothgar Woman with Dog Bill Wallis Vicar at Hunt Cameron Blakely Doreen as Louise Downey Llewellyn Rees Old Major Paul Weston French Driver Tim Lawrence French Driver Gary Lineker Couple at Restaurant Michelle Lineker Couple at Restaurant Rest of cast listed alphabetically: John Stableforth Butler uncredited Tony Walker Cab Driver uncredited Produced by Steve Abbott Richard Huw Brittle as Brittle.
Bridget McConnell Nanny as Nanny. Robert Young. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. A member of the English upper class dies, leaving his estate and his business to an American whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found. An Englishman who thinks he is an Indian comes to believe that he is actually the heir. He comes to hate the American who is his boss, his friend, and the man who has stolen the woman after whom he lusts. A wickedly funny comedy of royal proportions.
Rated PG for nudity and sexual dialogue. Did you know Edit. Trivia The final film of Stratford Johns. Quotes Tommy Patel : You don't have to worry about me, dear. User reviews 41 Review. Top review. Rather amusing little black comedy with some of the Monty Python touch. I'm probably in the minority here The more talented writer, both in sketch material and song lyrics to any other Python fan who appreciates those; Yes, Idle wrote and performed the main theme , the better facial expressions and acting.
Naturally, when I found out that he had written and starred in a film of his own though John Cleese does also have a role , I had to watch it. Enter John Cleese as a barrister whom Idle approaches with his case, and who suggests it would be much easier for the House of Lords to agree with Idle's claims if Moranis were dead.
The resulting series of bizarre murder attempts are like those in many other movies, and not particularly funny. The movie adds a breathtakingly beautiful woman Catherine Zeta-Jones for Moranis to marry and Idle to lust after, gets some laughs with Hershey's nymphomania and the danger of unaware incest, and then basically dissipates its comic energy in a plot that's too sensible to be funny.
This sort of farce demands more manic passion, not Eric Idle's sadsack, Gene Wilder-style gentleness. As the impostor, Idle might seem funny.
As the wronged victim, he's a mope. Barbara Hershey, playing a sex-bomb blonde in a push-up bustier, proves again that she is one of the most elusive women in the movies; she's able to transform herself for roles so that I'm always wondering who she is, and here she's very funny as the old lord's widow. I also liked some of the merciless running gags against the British, although for most American audiences they won't have much sting.
But the central plot sinks the whole enterprise: Where's the humor in things turning out the way they ought to?
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