The Gods Must Be Crazy

Released 1980
Stars Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo, N!xau, Louw Verwey
Directed by Jamie Uys
 
Highly original, offbeat comedy about cultural clashes in Africa, involving a bushman who encounters civilization for the first time, a pretty schoolteacher whose new assignment is a remote village, and a bumbling scientist whose attempts to make her welcome result in slapstick catastrophes. Film itself is clumsy at times, but completely disarming. It didn't receive major U. S. release until 1984, but then became the biggest foreign box-office hit in history! Uys, who also wrote and produced, plays the reverend.

Summary by Leonard Maltin