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Ishtar Details

1987

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Two totally untalented song-writers are advised by their agent to get away as far away as possible. Upon their arrival in Morocco, they are separately recruited as spies for opposing sides of a planned revolution, while simultaneously vying for the attentions of an attractive left-wing revolutionary. Based on an idea by Elaine May. Read more

Starring	Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani, Warren Beatty, Charles Grodin
Director	Elaine May
Genres	Action/Adventure, Comedy

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Ishtar

Starring	Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani, Warren Beatty, Charles Grodin, Jack Weston
Director	Elaine May
Studio	UCA
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 43 mins LOVEFiLM Instant: 1 hr 43 mins
Certificate	DVD LOVEFiLM Instant
Genres	Action/Adventure, Comedy
Language	DVD: English LOVEFiLM Instant: English
Subtitles	DVD: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Released	Production year: 1987 To Watch Online: LOVEFiLM Instant: 22 Nov 2010 To Rent: DVD: 13 Sep 2004
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- So bad it could almost have been deliberate. The faults are many, but the casting of Hoffman and Beatty as a talentless... read more on Time Out
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  dustin hoffman's worst movie despite a good idea ,very bad dialogues ,bad directing,bad acting from adjani .I couldn't bear more than 30 mn you have to ... read more »
  
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  Ishtar, Arabic for 'Stinker'
  
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  It really is staggeringly bad. By 10 minutes into the movie it's clear that the two main characters have no saving graces so it's not as though you'... read more »
  
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  If you give it a chance it might surprise you?
  
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  I enjoyed it. It took a bit to get going as the opening twenty minutes in New York, which was good, felt a bit overlong. And I can't deny that there was a ... read more »
  
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  Don't shoot the piano player !
  
  It was ok, told the story it claimed to tell.
  
  Ok so would never be a blockbuster, but a refreshing change from endless gunfire, explosions , special ... read more »
  
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  Two totally untalented song-writers are advised by their agent to get away as far away as possible. Upon their arrival in Morocco, they are separately recruited as spies for opposing sides of a planned revolution, while simultaneously vying for the attentions of an attractive left-wing ...