The read
Audiences rate it 18 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
Underappreciated actor Jack Noah is on location in Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right-hand man makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse... to play the dictator. Jack's acting skills fool the masses but not close friends and employees of the dictator.
Ratings
IMDb6/10
Rotten Tomatoes42%
Audiences rate it 18 points higher than critics do.
90 audience votes
Key crew
- Paul MazurskyDirector
- Maurice JarreOriginal Music Composer
- Leon CapetanosScreenplay
- Paul MazurskyScreenplay
Cast
- Richard DreyfussJack Noah
- Raúl JuliáRoberto Strausmann
- Sonia BragaMadonna
- Jonathan WintersRalph
- Sammy Davis Jr.Self
- Michael GreeneClint
- Polly HollidayMidge
- Milton GonçalvesCarlo
- CharoMadame Loop
- Marianne SägebrechtMagda
- Reinhard KolldehoffGunther
- Richard Russell RamosDieter Lopez
Stills
Themes
dictatorremakesouth americabased on short storyimpersonationfictitious country