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Bananas (1971) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date • R1: Jul 5, 2000 • R2: 19 Feb 2001
Budget $2,000,000
MPAA Rating Rated PG-13 for comic sexuality including some pin-up nudity, some drug use and crude language.
Running Time 1 hour, 22 minutes
Country USA
Studio United Artists
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Other Titles • Bananas (1971)
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Genre: Comedy, Political, Spoof, Courtroom, Satire, On The Road, Kidnapping, Drugs, Slapstick, Racy
Plot: Woody Allen leads a revolution in a small Latin American dictatorship in this hysterical comedy that parodies everything from the American media and political activism to the CIA and the judicial system. Allen plays Fielding Mellish, a nebbish unwilling to commit to anything--until he meets Nancy, played by Louise Lasser. Mellish soon finds himself fighting with guerrilla forces in the small third world country of San Marcos, and he becomes an international figure, even appearing on ABC's Wide World of Sports with Howard Cosell, who plays himself. The film is loaded with sight gags that pay homage to Chaplin, Bergman, and the Marx Brothers while taking on politics, government, and religion, even breaking for a commercial for cigarettes endorsed by the church. One of the most memorable scenes of Allen's career occurs when Mellish defends himself in the funniest courtroom scene since the Three Stooges' DISORDER IN THE COURT. Allen's obsessions with food, sex, and death begin to take form here, on their way to becoming major themes in such films as LOVE AND DEATH, ANNIE HALL, and HANNAH AND HER SISTERS.
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| Directed by |
Woody Allen
Match Point, Everyone Says I Love You, Bullets Over Broadway |
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 | Mickey Rose
Take the Money and Run, Condorman, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | |
| Music By |
Marvin Hamlisch
Three Men and a Baby, Ordinary People, The Spy Who Loved Me | |
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