Whatever movies from the formers Monty Phython's members are quick-witted works, Splitting Heirs has two of them, Eric Idle and John Cleese, although it's a minor work, lays out on their patterns, providing a fancy British humor, even having a substantial American actors, the plot is quite riveting, a tale about an extensive ancestry of the Bournmouths of British aristocracy, when the 15th Duke Tommy (Idle) was born on the sixties and was left on a restaurant and aftermaths he was swapped by another child (Moranis), strangely Tommy was adopted by an Indian family located on London and raised by them, already adults somehow these two guys come across occasionally and becomes friends, Tommy visiting Henry's castle realizes some blatant sameness over him and many pictures of the Bouronmouth's displayed on the walls, hereinafter he makes a research, finding strong evidences that he was the real inheritor of the family and deserves his place back, the movie has many enticing elements to hold the viewers as black comedy than anything else, the casting encloses the sexy Catherine Zeta-Jones and a still youthful Barbara Hershey in great shape, also John Cleese in a secondary role, nothing bad at all.
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First watch: 1996 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 7
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First watch: 1996 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 7