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The Gods Must Be Crazy
1980
· Movie
· 109 min
B
MEANRANK
75/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1374
- IMDb #1546
- Google retired #434
- Rotten Tomatoes #1099
- Letterboxd #2522
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1506
+5 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1255
- Criticker #1458
- Kinopoisk #343
- AlloCiné #2149
- Trakt #1871
Every rating
52–94
out of 100
A pilot throws a glass Coke bottle out of his plane, and it lands in the isolated Kalahari Desert, where a tribe of Bushmen find it. They believe it is a gift from the gods. The object soon causes jealousy and conflict within the peaceful tribe. One tribesman decides to return the evil thing to the gods by journeying to the edge of the world to throw it off.
Details
- Director
- Jamie Uys
- Writer
- Jamie Uys
- Studio
- CAT Films, Mimosa Films
- Released
- 10 September 1980
- Country
- South Africa, Botswana
- Language
- English, Afrikaans, Ungwatsi
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $5.0M
- Box office
- $200.0M
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Awards
2 wins & 3 nominations total
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