"Moon Over Parador" (1988) is a comedy with drama/romance starring Richard Dreyfuss as Jack Noah, an unknown actor shooting a movie in the South American dictatorship Parador. The goodhearted Dictator unexpectedly dies and Jack is forced to play the Dictator for a few days by his right-hand man, Roberto (Raul Julia). It turns out to be the role of a lifetime and Jack gets the Dictator's babe, Madonna (Sonia Braga).
I didn't expect much from this film and it was better than I thought it would be. It's consistently amusing, but not laugh-out-loud funny. The director has a good eye for women and there's a lot of 'em, including Braga in her prime. A plus is that you get significant guest appearances by the likes of Jonathan Winters, Sammy Davis Jr., Ed Asner, Charo and more.
The film runs 103 minutes and was shot in Ouro Preto, Salvador and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
GRADE: B
I didn't expect much from this film and it was better than I thought it would be. It's consistently amusing, but not laugh-out-loud funny. The director has a good eye for women and there's a lot of 'em, including Braga in her prime. A plus is that you get significant guest appearances by the likes of Jonathan Winters, Sammy Davis Jr., Ed Asner, Charo and more.
The film runs 103 minutes and was shot in Ouro Preto, Salvador and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
GRADE: B