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Moon Over Parador (1988)

 -  Comedy | Romance | Adventure  -  9 September 1988 (USA)
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Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right hand man, Roberto, makes Jack an offer he cannot ... See full summary »

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Jack Noah / President Alphonse Simms
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Roberto Strausmann
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Madonna Mendez
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Ralph
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Alejandro
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Himself
Michael Greene ...
Clint
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Midge
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Carlo
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Madame Loop
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Magda
Reinhard Kolldehoff ...
Gunther
Richard Russell Ramos ...
Dieter Lopez
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Archbishop
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Toby
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Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right hand man, Roberto, makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse.. to play the dictator. Jack's acting skills fool the masses but not close friends and employees of the dictator. Written by Rob Hartill

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Welcome to Parador. The Dictator's cold, the First Lady's hot, the people are revolting... and Jack Noah just got the role of his life.

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Luar Sobre Parador  »

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$20,000,000 (estimated)

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$11,444,204 (USA)
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Paul Mazursky's wife, Betsy, appears at a buffet table and asks, "Por favor, is it safe to eat this lettuce here?" and Paul Mazursky's daughter, Jill, plays the assistant director of the second film crew to shoot in Parador. See more »

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Roberto Strausmann: I hate actors.
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References Raging Bull (1980) See more »

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"Lilli Marleen"
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"The Kiss of the Spider Woman": the flip side
11 November 2006 | by (Portland, Oregon, USA) – See all my reviews

While "The Kiss of the Spider Woman" cast Raul Julia as a political prisoner in an unidentified Latin American country, this time he works for a dictator in a fictional Latin American country. Specifically, the dictator suddenly drops dead, so Julia replaces el presidente with a Broadway actor (Richard Dreyfuss) shooting a movie in the country. From there, Dreyfuss has to figure out how to be a dictator, all the while balancing it with his own life.

Is it appropriate to turn the tense situation in Latin America into comedy? Well, "Moon Over Parador" does a good job with it. No matter what they do in this movie, they pull it off. It just goes to show why Richard Dreyfuss is one of the greatest actors of our era, and what we lost when Raul Julia died. Definitely worth seeing. Also starring Sonia Braga (who co-starred with Raul Julia in "TKOTSW"), Jonathan Winters and Sammy Davis Jr.

I agree: the first lady is hot.
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