Splitting Heirs is a 1993 British black comedy film directed by Robert Young and starring Eric Idle, Rick Moranis, Barbara Hershey, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cleese and Sadie Frost.

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.

A cruelly protracted scene in which a bucknaked Idle is forced to hide in Jones' closet when Moranis comes calling gives you plenty of time to wonder whether the Nautilus franchise is still available for England.

"[5] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a mixed review, believing much of the humor would be lost on American audiences.

"[11] Critic Kenneth Turan later wrote in The Guardian in 2002, "Every Cannes veteran has his or her list of ridiculous films that were somehow let in, from the dim British comedy Splitting Heirs to the unreleasable Johnny Depp-directed The Brave.

"[12] In a 2018 interview, Eric Idle cited the U.K. press's criticism of the film's Cannes appearance as a deciding factor for his relocation to the United States.