The Gods Must Be Crazy poster

The Gods Must Be Crazy( 1980)

TV-MAActionComedy
73%
User
Score

The critics are raving... the natives are restless... and the laughter is non-stop!

Overview

A Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane raises havoc among a normally peaceful tribe of African bushmen who believe it to be a utensil of the gods.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Marius Weyers

      Andrew Steyn

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      Sandra Prinsloo

      Kate Thompson

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      N!xau

      Xi

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      Louw Verwey

      Sam Boga

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      Michael Thys

      Mpudi

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      Nic De Jager

      Jack Hind

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      Fanyana H. Sidumo

      Card 1

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      Joe Seakatsie

      Card 2

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      Brian O'Shaughnessy

      Mr. Thompson

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      Ken Gampu

      President

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      Paddy O'Byrne

      Narrator (voice)

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      Graham Armitage

      The Reverend (voice) (uncredited)

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      Vera Blacker

      Mrs. Thompson (uncredited)

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      Katinka Heyns

      Young Woman with Noise in Her Head (uncredited)

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      Janet Meshad

      Kate Thompson (voice) (uncredited)

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      Jamie Uys

      The Reverend (uncredited)

    Social

    Review 1Discussion

    A review by Peter McGinn

    9
    Written by Peter McGinn on Mon Oct 05 2020
    This is another one of those older movies my wife and I watched together over twenty years ago, and then recently watched again. We enjoyed it just as much as we did the first time. I had forgotten a lot of the details, so that was actually a good thing as it wasn’t overly familiar to me, like watching Groundhog Day yet again would be. The tag line suggests that the laughs never stop, but that isn’t quite accurate. There are a lot of laugh out loud moments, mostly physical humor, and plenty of pockets of humor here and there, but there are also connecting scenes that set up the plot lines an...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    5000000.00

    Revenue

    200000000.00

    Keywords

    • airplane
    • africa
    • coca-cola
    • tribe
    • god
    • desert
    • soda bottle
    • kalahari
    • bushman
    • tribal
    • independent film