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      Splitting Heirs

      PG-13 1993 1h 26m Comedy List
      7% 14 Reviews Tomatometer 37% 2,500+ Ratings Audience Score An American klutz (Rick Moranis) and a British banker (Eric Idle) compete for the title of the 15th Duke of Bournemouth. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Quite alright comedy. A royal family has a history of zany heir and always suffer accidental death at young age. Barbara Hershey is an American who marry into the family and one day out partying forgot to take the baby. Only the blanket and rattle are missing. Forward to many years later, Eric Idle is an adopted child in an Indian family (but he has no idea he's not Indian) and work in stock trade. He is to entertain Rick Moranis who is from USA. Then the CEO of the company died in an accident and Rick is the new boss, because he is the heir of the royal family. Eric continue to be his best friend. Barbara is a lusty woman who go after every men and likes Eric. Catherine Zeta-Jones is Rick girlfriend and warn Eric about Barbara. When Eric took home a royal spoon, his mother reveal he is adopted and show him the rattle and blanket. Eric find lawyer John Cleese to see if he can get back his rightful throne but its not that easy. Catherine has a one night stand with him and next morning she tell him she is marrying Rick for the good life. Eric decide to get back what is his and plot to kill Rick. But every effort always fails, even trying to kill before he marry but he is lucky enough to be alive. He found out the cook is Rick real mother and she use her own baby to get into the good life. Catherine tell Eric she is pregnant with his child and he stop trying to kill Rick. But the cook and nanny are killed. John want to work with Eric to get back the throne but Eric is not interested. When the baby alarm sounded, Rick and Catherine overheard Barbara talking to Eric about the rattle and know he is her child. Rick drive his car out to unwind and its temper by John. Eric go after to save him but its too late. John return at night wanting to kill them all so he can be legal guardian of the child and live the royal good life. Rick return and he wasn't dead at all. Barbara throw a statue onto John head and he escape. Catherine say the baby is Rick and he lied to Eric to stop him from killing. Everyone is happy together and open a tour group to visit the palace. Eric write the story into a book and marry his PA. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Awesome cast. Stupidly hilarious. There is certainly enough here to leave you smiling. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Unwatchable. But there's a pretty funny gag in the opening credits that is worth seeing. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Silly, not super great, but ok. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Randomly picked up this movie one weekend having never heard of it. Quite funny and solid performances by everyone Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Frances H Not as Funny as Holy Grail or Life of Brian, but very enjoyable--a remake of Kind Hearts and Coronets with a happy ending. That Barbara Hershey, who during the early 70s changed her last name to Seagull after a bird that died while she was filming and who named her son with Caradine "Free"--she changed her name back later and her son changed his to Tom when he was 9--played the hippie mom who named her son Henry Thomas Butterfly Rainbow Peace was a hoot. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 06/14/13 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Critics Reviews

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      Nell Minow Movie Mom Rated: 2/5 Feb 8, 2004 Full Review Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle Rated: 1/5 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review James Berardinelli ReelViews Rated: 1.5/4 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Eddie Harrison film-authority.com …there’s genuinely not a laugh in it, and some of the cultural assumptions are offensive without being amusing… Rated: 1/5 Nov 30, 2023 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews The degree to which Splitting Heirs slowly-but-surely peters out is ultimately rather disappointing... Rated: 1.5/4 Jun 13, 2020 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Aug 11, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis An American klutz (Rick Moranis) and a British banker (Eric Idle) compete for the title of the 15th Duke of Bournemouth.
      Director
      Robert Young
      Production Co
      Prominent Features
      Rating
      PG-13
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Nov 5, 2019
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $3.0M
      Runtime
      1h 26m
      Sound Mix
      Surround