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Bananas

  • 19711971
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 22m
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6.9/10
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Bananas (1971)
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.
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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.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.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.
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
36K
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    • Woody Allen
    • Woody Allen
    • Mickey Rose
  • Stars
    • Woody Allen
    • Louise Lasser
    • Carlos Montalbán
    • Woody Allen
    • Woody Allen
    • Mickey Rose
  • Stars
    • Woody Allen
    • Louise Lasser
    • Carlos Montalbán
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 127User reviews
    • 57Critic reviews
    • 67Metascore
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    Woody Allen and Miguel Ángel Suárez in Bananas (1971)
    Woody Allen and Louise Lasser in Bananas (1971)
    Woody Allen, Jacobo Morales, David Ortiz Angleró, and Miguel Ángel Suárez in Bananas (1971)
    Woody Allen in Bananas (1971)
    Woody Allen and Martha Greenhouse in Bananas (1971)
    Woody Allen and Ed Crowley in Bananas (1971)
    Woody Allen and Louise Lasser in Bananas (1971)
    Woody Allen in Bananas (1971)
    Woody Allen and Carlos Montalbán in Bananas (1971)
    Woody Allen, Nati Abascal, and Louise Lasser in Bananas (1971)
    Woody Allen in Bananas (1971)
    Bananas (1971)

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    Woody Allen
    Woody Allen
    • Fielding Mellish
    Louise Lasser
    Louise Lasser
    • Nancy
    Carlos Montalbán
    Carlos Montalbán
    • General Emilio M. Vargas
    Nati Abascal
    Nati Abascal
    • Yolanda
    • (as Natividad Abascal)
    Jacobo Morales
    • Esposito
    Miguel Ángel Suárez
    Miguel Ángel Suárez
    • Luis
    • (as Miguel Suarez)
    David Ortiz Angleró
    • Sanchez
    René Enríquez
    René Enríquez
    • Diaz
    • (as Rene Enríquez)
    Jack Axelrod
    • Arroyo
    Howard Cosell
    Howard Cosell
    • Howard Cosell
    Roger Grimsby
    Roger Grimsby
    • Roger Grimsby
    Don Dunphy
    • Don Dunphy
    Charlotte Rae
    Charlotte Rae
    • Mrs. Mellish
    Stanley Ackerman
    • Dr. Mellish
    Dan Frazer
    Dan Frazer
    • Priest
    Martha Greenhouse
    • Dr. Feigen
    Axel Anderson
    • Man Tortured
    Tigre Pérez
    • Perez
    • (as Tigre Perez)
      • Woody Allen
      • Woody Allen
      • Mickey Rose
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    • Trivia
      Sylvester Stallone appears uncredited as a subway thug. This was one of his earliest film roles, not a cameo. According to website Every Woody Allen Movie, "Allen initially sent Stallone back to the casting agency after deciding he wasn't 'tough-looking' enough. Stallone pleaded with him and eventually convinced him to change his mind".
    • Goofs
      During the riot scene at the "embassy," the firefighter hosing down the crowd has LBFD on his turnout coat. That likely stands for Long Beach Fire Dept. The embassy is presumably located in New York which would have NYFD firefighters. (Embassies are ALWAYS in national capitals, such as Washington DC. If a foreign government has representatives in another city, such as NYC, it would be as a consulate, not an embassy.)
    • Quotes

      Nancy: Have you ever been to Denmark?

      Fielding Mellish: I've been, yes... to the Vatican.

      Nancy: The Vatican? The Vatican is in Rome.

      Fielding Mellish: Well, they were doing so well in Rome that they opened one in Denmark.

    • Crazy credits
      In the opening credits, the credits flash in time to the music. Additionally, the cards are shot with machine gun fire.
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: What Makes Woody Run? (1986)
    • Soundtracks
      Quiero La Noche
      Words and music by Marvin Hamlisch

      Sung by The Yomo Toro Trio

      [Played during the opening titles and credits]

    User reviews127

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    A Memorable Ahead-Of-Its-Time Classic
    I went to see "Bananas," in the early 1970s with three of my high school buddies, in our local theater. And, it remains -- three decades later -- one of the most memorable and one of my most talked about movie-going experiences ever. So much of it was comprised of absolutely hysterical scenes which I've told countless people about through the years, and still tell people about.

    Watching this movie today, it seems as if it had been somewhat haphazardly written. I get the feeling that Woody Allen had kept a journal in which he noted the funniest sights he'd witnessed and the cleverest one-liners he'd heard, over a period of years, and then set about mixing all of these totally unrelated funny things into one script. It's like he was saying to himself, "I think I'll throw in the bit about the guy trying to discreetly buy a sex magazine in a quiet neighborhood store and getting embarrassed, and then the snake bite bit later on. But first before the next plot turn, I think I'll put in the bit in which a guy gets out of his car and falls into an open manhole.", etc. You feel at times like you're watching a Benny Hill-type comedy show, or a TV variety show with a series of comedy skits that have nothing at all to do with each other. Somehow, Woody blended it all together into a fairly coherent story. There are also a few scenes which feature "Airplane"/"Naked Gun"-style tongue-in-cheek humor. But, this movie had been made *long* before those were even thought of. There's a message in that: This movie was ahead of its time. There's a segment of "Bananas," early on, which is just one outrageously funny bit after another after another.

    I guess the movie doesn't really have a point . . . except maybe that maniacal dictators are crazy, dangerous and should be driven from power . .. or maybe that freedom is worth fighting for . . . or maybe that some causes are worth laying down your life for. Obviously, there's relevance in all of that for us, today. Or maybe the whole point of this movie could simply be that Woody Allen knows how to make people laugh.

    Later, Art
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    • artfiore1
    • Mar 26, 2003

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    • Release date
      • July 19, 1971 (Sweden)
      • United States
      • English
      • Spanish
      • Yiddish
      • Italian
    • Also known as
    • Filming locations
      • Puerto Rico
    • Production company
      • Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions
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    • 1 hour 22 minutes
      • Color
      • Mono

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