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  • Starring: Judy Davis, Sam Neill
  • Summary: After a mad, passionate fling on a whirlwind trip to Moscow, party girl Joan Fraser (Davis) returns home pregnant. And when little Joe is born, everyone wonders who "Daddy" is. Soon, the ball starts rolling on a hilarious sequence of events that includes a clueless husband (Rush), a lovesick double agent (Neill), and even Joseph Stalin (Abraham). (BV Entertainment)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 17 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 18
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  1. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: Barbara Shulgasser
    100
    The scenes with Stalin and his frightened underlings, his giddy yes-men tip-toeing around him, are written and directed by Duncan with a grace, agility and comic deftness one rarely is treated to at the movies these days.
  2. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    Writer/director Peter Duncan's first film is darkly humorous, with dashes of slapstick, brilliant, and original material.
  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    50
    It is enormously ambitious -- maybe too much so, since it ranges so widely between styles and strategies that it distracts from its own flow.

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