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Release Date:
19 July 1971 (Sweden)
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Plot:
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination
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(10 articles)
Blu-Ray Review: ‘Whatever Works’ Coasts on Worn Formula
(From HollywoodChicago.com. 28 October 2009, 7:58 AM, PDT)
Kritzerland releases early Woody Allen scores
(From MovieScore Magazine. 8 October 2009, 1:07 AM, PDT)
(From HollywoodChicago.com. 28 October 2009, 7:58 AM, PDT)
Kritzerland releases early Woody Allen scores
(From MovieScore Magazine. 8 October 2009, 1:07 AM, PDT)
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Allen's funniest movie ever
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Woody Allen | ... | Fielding Mellish |
 | Louise Lasser | ... | Nancy |
| Carlos Montalbán | ... | General Emilio M. Vargas |
| Nati Abascal | ... | Yolanda (as Natividad Abascal) |
| Jacobo Morales | ... | Esposito |
 | Miguel Ángel Suárez | ... | Luis (as Miguel Suarez) |
| David Ortiz | ... | Sanchez |
| René Enríquez | ... | Diaz (as Rene Enríquez) |
 | Jack Axelrod | ... | Arroyo |
| Howard Cosell | ... | Himself |
| Roger Grimsby | ... | Himself |
| Don Dunphy | ... | Himself |
| Charlotte Rae | ... | Mrs. Mellish |
| Stanley Ackerman | ... | Dr. Mellish |
| Dan Frazer | ... | Priest |
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Rated PG-13 for comic sexuality including some pin-up nudity, some drug use and crude language.
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82 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Certification:
Netherlands:6 |
USA:TV-14 (TV rating) |
Argentina:18 |
Australia:M |
Canada:PG |
Finland:K-12 |
France:U |
Germany:16 |
Iceland:Unrated |
Ireland:15 |
Sweden:11 |
UK:15 (video rating) (1988) |
UK:AA (cut) |
USA:GP (original rating, certificate #22817) |
USA:PG-13 (re-rating) |
Singapore:PG
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A very young Sylvester Stallone appears in the subway scene playing a hoodlum with another youngster.
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Goofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Fielding is driving his Volkswagen and talking, there is a shot where his lips clearly aren't moving.
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Don Dunphy: Good afternoon. Wide World of Sports is in the little republic of San Marcos where we're going to bring you a live, on the spot assassination. They're going to kill the president of this lovely Latin American country and replace him with a military dictatorship...
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Don Dunphy: Good afternoon. Wide World of Sports is in the little republic of San Marcos where we're going to bring you a live, on the spot assassination. They're going to kill the president of this lovely Latin American country and replace him with a military dictatorship...
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Movie Connections:
Spoofs The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
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Soundtrack:
1812 Overture in E Flat, Op.49
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"Bananas" shows why Woody Allen's early movies were far better. He plays Fielding Mellish, a products tester who is wishing that he had stayed in college ("I was taking black studies. I could be black!") After a brief fling with political activist Nancy (Louise Lasser), who is trying to restore democracy in the Latin American country of San Marcos (the movie begins with Howard Cosell hosting a "live, on-the-spot assassination" there). After she leaves him, he decides to go to San Marcos, where he gets involved with the revolutionary forces. Following the revolution's success, the leader installs some loony policies, and the US arrests Mellish for aiding the revolution. What follows shows the meaning of the expression "trial and error"!
Allen truly reached his apex with this movie. It's just one crazy thing after another, namely when Mellish and the revolutionaries buy lunch. Sylvester Stallone, in an early role, plays one of the hoodlums on the subway.