The Gods Must Be Crazy is a 1980 comedy film written and directed by Jamie Uys. It tells the story of a bushman who, after finding a Coke bottle dropped by an aeroplane, decides to take it back to his village to be used as a weapon. When the bottle is returned to the United States, a businessman tries to buy the rights to the bushman’s story, but the bushman instead travels to New York City to get the bottle back.

The film was a commercial success, grossing $153 million on a budget of $3 million. In the United States, …