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Bananas, 1971

Starring: Louise Lasser

Directed by: Woody Allen

Written by: Woody Allen

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 82 min

MPAA Rating: TV_14

Rating:7.1

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The mood of Bananas is offbeat, witty, and exciting. The plot centers around chaos, misfits, and state affairs. It features slapstick humor and satire. Bananas is a comedy movie. In approach, it is not serious and realistic. The pacing is fast. Bananas happens in the 20th century. The movie is known for being critically acclaimed. Note that it includes sexual content.

Summary of Bananas

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. It also tackles 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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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	28 April 1971
Runtime:	82 min

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hilarious

An early Woody Allen movie and one of his funniest. Not slow and dramatic like his "Hanna and her sisters" type of movies but offbeat and really funny. A crazy chaotic satire, i loved it, Woody Allen did his best work in his early days. Read and rate it

12.October.2008
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by: barak gilon
barak gilon rated this movie9/10Amazing

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