Kevin Film Fest: Ishtar

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Sunday, April 13 / 7 pm

Directed by Elaine May
1987, USA, 108 min

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Unfairly maligned when first released, Ishtar is a better film than its initial reception. Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty play a couple of bad New York songwriters who get a gig in the Middle East on tour in Ishtar, a country ruled by a dictator. Before long they are embroiled in trouble, pawns in a battle with various groups.

A very funny work by one of this country's greatest comic talents. — JONATHAN ROSENBAUM

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