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Release Date: 1971

Cast: Jacobo Morales, Danny DeVito, David Ortiz Angleró, Charlotte Rae, Woody Allen, Miguel Angel Suarez, Nati Abascal, Luis Antonio Cosme, Conrad Bain, Howard Cosell, Don Dunphy, Roger Grimsby ...MORE

Cast: Jacobo Morales, Danny DeVito, David Ortiz Angleró, Charlotte Rae, Woody Allen, Miguel Angel Suarez, Nati Abascal, Luis Antonio Cosme, Conrad Bain, Howard Cosell, Don Dunphy, Roger Grimsby, Sylvester Stallone, Carlos Montalbán, René Enríquez, David Ortiz, Louise Lasser ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Political Cinema, Parody, Comedy, Absurdism, Satire, Slapstick, Political Satire

Bananas is a 1971 comedy film written by Mickey Rose and Woody Allen, directed by Allen, and starring himself and Louise Lasser. Parts of the plot were based on the book Don Quixote, U.S.A. by Richard P. Powell. It was filmed on location in New York City, Lima (Peru), and various locations in Puerto Rico, including San Juan, Carolina and Loiza. This film is number 78 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies". Fielding Mellish (Woody Allen) is a neurotic blue collar man who tries to impress social activist Nancy (Louise Lasser). Trying to get in touch with the San Marcos revolution, he visits the... MORE

Bananas is a 1971 comedy film written by Mickey Rose and Woody Allen, directed by Allen, and starring himself and Louise Lasser. Parts of the plot were based on the book Don Quixote, U.S.A. by Richard P. Powell. It was filmed on location in New York City, Lima (Peru), and various locations in Puerto Rico, including San Juan, Carolina and Loiza. This film is number 78 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies". Fielding Mellish (Woody Allen) is a neurotic blue collar man who tries to impress social activist Nancy (Louise Lasser). Trying to get in touch with the San Marcos revolution, he visits the fictional South American country, or "banana republic," attempting to show his concern for the native people. However, nearly killed by the local caudillo, only to be saved by the revolutionaries, he is then indebted to help them. Mellish clumsily learns how to be a revolutionary. When the revolution is successful, the Castro-style leader goes mad, forcing the rebels to place Mellish as their President. When traveling back to the U.S. to obtain financial aid, he reunites with his activist ex-girlfriend and is exposed. In a classic courtroom scene, Mellish tries to defend himself from a series of LESS