

The Gods Must Be Crazy
The critics are raving... the natives are restless... and the laughter is non-stop!
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $5M
- Box office
- $200M
- Language
- Tswana
- airplane
- africa
- tribe
- botswana
- god
- desert
- soda bottle
- kalahari
- bushman
- tribal
- independent film
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremierePGNew York City, New York9 Jul 1984
- TheatricalPG13 Jul 1984
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalPG9 Aug 1984
CanadaCA
- TheatricalPG4 Oct 1985
BelgiumBE
- TheatricalGent19 May 1983
BrazilBR
- TheatricalRio de Janeiro6 Feb 1984
- TVLFox Film mj.gov.br23 Apr 2004
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical155 Jun 1981
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1228 Aug 1981
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP18 Jan 1983
GermanyDE
- Theatrical129 Jul 1982
GreeceGR
- Theatrical5 Apr 1981
- PhysicalDVD17 Feb 2004
HungaryHU
- Theatrical17 Jan 1985
MexicoMX
- TheatricalB5 May 1983
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The Gods Must Be Crazy was released on 10 September 1980.
Audience reviews
2- P9/10
Peter McGinn
10/5/2020
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…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
9/18/2026
"Xi" (N!xau) lives with his tribe on the edge of the Kalahari desert much the way his ancestors have for generations until one of their number discovers a glass Coca-Cola bottle. We know it had recently been rather thoughtlessly chucked out of an aircraft window by it's pilot, but they think it might be a gift from the gods. It is a curious and smooth shape, and it even has it's uses for helping to cure snake skins, …
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