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Name: Ishtar
Released: 1987-5-15
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani, Warren Beatty, Charles Grodin, Jack Weston

Ishtar

PG-13
1h 48m
1987

40%

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Rogers and Clarke (Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman) are two inept songwriters, down on their luck and desperate for money. Taking the advice of their shifty agent, the duo are whisked off on a tour of the mystical republic of Ishtar. On their arrival, our heroes are separately recruited into spying for opposing sides of a planned revolution, while simultaneously vying for the attention of a gorgeous female freedom fighter (Isabelle Adjani). But Clarke and Rogers make worse spies than they do songwriters, and soon they're left stranded in the desert with only a blind camel and several CIA assassins for company.

Director:

Elaine May

Producer:

Warren Beatty

Writer:

Elaine May

Cast:

Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani, Warren Beatty, Charles Grodin, Jack Weston, Carol Kane

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

40%

Critics Consensus: Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, and laughter itself get lost in the desert during a flawed spoof of classic road movies that proves ill-suited for its mismatched and miscast stars.

Reviews

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David Nusair

Ishtar‘s slow-but-steady descent into complete tedium is triggered by a progressively tiresome midsection focused on the protagonists’ far-from-enthralling spy shenanigans...

Plays its humor much more straight than the Hope/Crosby comedies, which may explain why it never connected with audiences, but it's that deadpan nature that really makes it work.

Ishtar must have started as a small idea. Unfortunately, only the budget grew.

An elaborately antic musical of startling, even disturbing, originality.

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