Ishtar

Supposedly sure bets get massively pumped up, then poop out fast. Ishtar couldn't lose with Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty, but it lost Columbia Pictures $40 million. Heaven's Gate was an "epic film" that lost $44 million, forcing...

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After a six year hiatus, he returned in 1987 starring alongside Dustin Hoffman in the big-budget Ishtar '', which, despite both Beatty and Hoffman being proud of their work on the film and tried to support it, was critically...

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...gathered in one place this side of Hollywood itself. Not that talent itself is any guarantee; remember how Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty once pooled their resources to make Ishtar? But the makers of Four Christmases have struck pay dirt,...

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...attention by choosing famously bad movies and claiming they're great. (I hate it when people do that.) I watched Ishtar and laughed a lot. Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty, playing a pair untalented songwriters who get tangled up in Middle...

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...to spite Warren Beatty, is long gone. If Sony can handle the ignominy of belching up LEONARD PART 6 (which upset ISHTAR for the Worst Picture Razzie in 1987), they can surely stand by ISHTAR. Until they do, those of us who...

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...Beatty for having so many girlfriends. During the 30-second introduction I gave Jesse before each film, I suggested that the affaire "Ishtar" served as proof of the unreliability of popular condemnation. "Ishtar" is, in fact, a lovely movie...

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Ishtar (film) Ishtar is a 1987 comedy film, directed by Elaine May and starring Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman as "Rogers and Clarke", a duo of incredibly untalented lounge singers who travel to Morocco looking for work and stumble into a...

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