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Bananas

Bananas

1971, Movie, 1h 22min

Writer-director Woody Allen’s supremely silly third feature channels the absurdity of the Marx brothers for a side-splitting satire of Cold War politics and American imperialism. He stars as bumbling New York City product tester Fielding Mellish, who, after he’s jilted by his activist girlfriend (Louise Lasser), heads to the tiny Latin American republic of San Marcos for vacation—only to wind up becoming the unwitting leader of a political revolution. Among the highlights: legendary sports announcer Howard Cosell delivering a honeymoon-night bedroom “play-by-play” and an uncredited appearance from a pre-stardom Sylvester Stallone as a subway thug.

Country: United States

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Sylvester Stallone,

Allen Garfield,

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Critic David Parkinson

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6

...a satire about dissemblance in a society in which nothing lives up to expectation and no one fulfills their promises.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Bananas include The Party, Carry On England, Chabelo Y Pepito en La Lámpara Maravillosa, Adulterio a la española, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, And Now for Something Completely Different.

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Bananas was released in theaters on April 28, 1971.