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“Ishtar” is a truly dreadful film, a lifeless, massive, lumbering exercise in failed comedy. Elaine May, the director, has mounted a multimillion-dollar expedition in search of a plot so thin that it hardly could support a five-minute TV sketch.
Booked in Marrakech, two New York singers (Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman) stop in Ishtar, meet a beautiful rebel (Isabelle Adjani) and alarm the CIA.
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- Elaine May
- PG-13
- Warren Beatty
Ishtar is a 1987 American adventure comedy film written and directed by Elaine May, and produced by Warren Beatty, who co-stars opposite Dustin Hoffman. The story revolves around a duo of talentless American songwriters who travel to a booking in Morocco and stumble into a four-party Cold War standoff.
Ishtar Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Mattie Lucas From the Front Row. Plays its humor much more straight than the Hope/Crosby comedies, which may explain...
Review: The singer-songwriter team of Lyle Rogers ( Warren Beatty ) and Chuck Clarke ( Dustin Hoffman ) have only been together five months, but already they have... been entirely unsuccessful. How very unlike the more famous duo of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel , their idols, who they are hoping to emulate.
- Elaine May
- 4 (from 1 vote)
- Comedy
- 1987
Jun 10, 2024 · Ishtar killed Elaine May's directing career, but it's a savvy and sweet blend of dumb men and pathetic political machinations.
With Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani, Charles Grodin. Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the C.I.A., the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
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