Ishtar
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 11 Ratings
- Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani, Warren Beatty
- Summary: Chuck Clarke (Hoffman) and Lyle Rogers (Beatty) are a couple of no-talent New York singer-songwriters who agree to play the only gig they can find at the Chez Casablanca in Morocco. En route, they become embroiled in various international intrigues in the neighboring (fictional) Ishtar.
- Director: Elaine May
- Genre(s): Adventure, Comedy, Musical
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Positive: 7 out of 16
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Mixed: 6 out of 16
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Negative: 3 out of 16
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80A smart, generous, genuinely funny affair. Sometimes, like the camel who almost ambles away with the picture, it's longish in the tooth, but it is based on an extremely astute vision of life. [15 May 1987]
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80The most underestimated commercial movie of 1987 may not be quite as good as Elaine May's three previous features, but it's still a very funny work by one of this country's greatest comic talents.
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It's worth seeing the movie just to observe [Grodin's] delicious blend of unctuous manipulation and anti-Communist sanctimoniousness. [15 May 1987]
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30It's piddling -- a hangdog little comedy with not enough laughs...its spirit rattles around inside it like a marble in an oil drum.
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Positive: 2 out of 6
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Mixed: 1 out of 6
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Negative: 3 out of 6
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