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[2] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 53 out of 100 based on 35 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews." [3] In a positive review, Nathan Rabin wrote in The A.V. Club, "Looking succeeds smashingly both as a comedy and as a savvy deconstruction of comedy. It's equally concerned with getting laughs and exploring how ...
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World: Directed by Albert Brooks. With Penny Marshall, Victoria Burrows, Paul Jerome, Albert Brooks. To improve its relations with Muslim countries, the United States government sends comedian Albert Brooks to south Asia to write a report on what makes followers of Islam laugh.
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- Comedy
- Albert Brooks
- 2006-01-20
About The Movie. The American senate, in order to improve it’s fast declining global image, asks comedian Albert Brooks to write a 500 page document about what makes Muslims laugh in India and Pakistan. Bidding adieu to his wife and young daughter,and accompanied by two government bureaucrats, Albert opens up an office in New Delhi, hires a ...
Looking for Comedy succeeds smashingly both as a comedy and as a savvy deconstruction of comedy. The movie has a perversely unifying effect: Muslims, Christians and Jews may not be able to agree ...
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- Albert Brooks
- PG-13
- Albert Brooks
This is possibly Albert Brooks' least-loved and least-seen movie, perhaps because the title gives the wrong impression. The film is really about the role that cultural context plays in making comedy work, and a gentle satire of U.S. foreign policy. The deadpan performances unfold mostly in austerely-decorated rooms in static medium-shots.
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- Shangri-La Entertainment
- Albert Brooks
Apr 10, 2019 · Take My Wives, Please. In Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, Albert Brooks makes his alter ego (“Albert Brooks”) the butt of every joke, which generates big laughs and progressively ...
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Jan 20, 2006 · Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World Reviews - Metacritic. 2006. PG-13. Warner Independent Pictures (WIP) 1 h 38 m. Summary Albert Brooks provides an inspired and comedic view of America's approach to other cultures. (Warner Independent Pictures) Comedy. Directed By: Albert Brooks.
