Bananas
(DVD)
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Puny New Yorker and gadget tester Fielding Mellish (Woody Allen) is in love with Nancy (Louise Lasser), a beautiful political activist who is herself obsessed by the battles being waged in San Marcos between the dictator General Vargas (Carlos Montalban) and his revolutionary opponents. Thus, in an attempt to impress his beloved, Mellish makes for San Marcos and in a bizarre and bewildering series of events, ends up the president of the country. An early spoof from Allen, in much the same vein as 'Sleeper' and 'Love and Death'; includes an appearance by Sylvester Stallone as a subway hoodlum.
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16 October 2000
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Woody Allen's second film as director, co-writer and star takes parpdy to the extreem with brilliant send-up of evrything from relationships to dictatroships.
Abn early example of what Allen called his 'Slapdash' approch to comedy, Bananas' broad, fast humor and rapid-fire wirricisms from dazzaling kaleidoscope of inspired ingenunity and comic artisy.
When bumbling product-tester Fielding Mellish (Allen) is jilted by his girlfriend, Nancy ( Louise LKasser), he heads to the tiny republic of San Marcos for a vacation...
Only to become kidnapped by rebrels! Once the band of reb;es seize power, their leader goes crazy, ansd they replace him with Mellish, thinking he can sacve the country. But when Mellish is nabbed by the FBI, he is put on trial foe subversion and in a side-splitting courtroom showdown - including the most hilarious self-cross examination ever- Woody Allen proves beyond doubt that he is not only our most gifted satirist...he's a master comic artist.
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