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A Balasaur Score of 71 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.9/10, Rotten Tomatoes 83%, Metacritic 67/100. Scores higher than 72% of the 585 1970s comedy movies in this catalog. It runs a compact 1h 22m. Streaming on Tubi.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes83%
Metacritic67/100
844 audience votes
Key crew
- Marvin HamlischOriginal Music Composer
- Woody AllenDirector
- Woody AllenWriter
- Mickey RoseWriter
Cast
- Woody AllenFielding Mellish
- Louise LasserNancy
- Carlos MontalbánGeneral Emilio M. Vargas
- Nati AbascalYolanda
- Jacobo MoralesEsposito
- Miguel Ángel SuárezLuis
- René EnríquezDiaz
- Jack AxelrodArroyo
- Howard CosellHimself
- Charlotte RaeMrs. Ruth Mellish
- Stanley AckermanDr. Al Mellish
- Dorothi FoxJ. Edgar Hoover
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Shares: Woody Allen · Louise Lasser · Comedy
Themes
revolutionpolitical activismloserbanana republicanarchic comedy
The Best Movies of 1971
Bananas is #36 of 60
