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Release Date: 1971

Cast: Louise Lasser, Sylvester Stallone, Luis Antonio Cosme, Conrad Bain, Woody Allen, David Ortiz, Miguel Angel Suarez, Nati Abascal, Roger Grimsby, Howard Cosell, Charlotte Rae, Danny DeVito ...MORE

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

Categories: Movies, Parody, Absurdism, Comedy, Political satire, Satire, Political cinema, Slapstick

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) by trying to get in touch with the revolution in San Marcos, a fictional... 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) by trying to get in touch with the revolution in San Marcos, a fictional South American country, or "banana republic." He visits San Marcos and attempts 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 LESS