Ishtar
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Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats Silly and Outdated, Despite Clooney Cool...a fun period piece here. Instead, we get the modern-day desert adventures of George and Ewan, which are unfortunately reminiscent of similar moments in the notorious Dustin Hoffman-Warren Beatty bomb Ishtar. These characters are,... In this article: George Clooney, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Ewan McGregor, Scorpion King, Jedi, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Iraq War |
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CNET News.com | March 07, 2008
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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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Wikipedia | October 22, 2009
Warren Beatty
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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Baltimore Sun | November 25, 2008
Four Christmases
...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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Film.com Movie Blog | May 11, 2009
Eric's Time Capsule: Ishtar (May 15, 1987)
...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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Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. | March 23, 2009
AICN Presents Film Rehabilitation Night At The New Beverly! ISHTAR And JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO! April 1st and 2nd!
...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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Newsweek Entertainment | January 02, 2009
Learning More From Hollywood Than From High School
...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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Wikipedia | November 01, 2009
Ishtar (film)
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...
In this article: Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty, Elaine May, Paul Williams, Gary Larson, David Puttnam, Suicide, and Oscar
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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 four-party Cold War standoff. It also starred Isabelle Adjani and Charles Grodin and was shot by Vittorio Storaro. The songs in the film were written by Paul Williams, with additional help from Hoffman and May.
- Name:
- Ishtar
- Country of Origin:
- USA
- Release Date:
- May 15, 1987
- Directed By:
- Elaine May
- Produced by:
- Warren Beatty
- Written By:
- Elaine May
- Editor:
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- Stephen A. Rotter
- William Reynolds
- Richard P. Cirincione
- Cinematography:
- Vittorio Storaro
- Music By:
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- Bahjawa
- Dave Grusin
- Distributed By:
- Columbia Pictures
- Length:
- 107 min
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