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Ishtar is a 1987 American adventure - comedy film written and directed by Elaine May, and produced by Warren Beatty, who co-stars opposite Dustin Hoffman. The story revolves around a duo of talentless American songwriters who travel to a booking in Morocco and stumble into a four-party Cold War standoff.
- $51 million
- Warren Beatty
- May 15, 1987
May 15, 1987 · Ishtar: Directed by Elaine May. With Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani, Charles Grodin. Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the C.I.A., the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
- (12K)
- Action, Adventure, Comedy
- Elaine May
- 1987-05-15
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May 21, 2022 · Ishtar was the top-grossing movie over its May 15th opening weekend, but it barely outgrossed Tibor Takácks’ low-budget horror programmer The Gate. These films offered a devastating contrast in ...
Booked in Marrakech, two New York singers (Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman) stop in Ishtar, meet a beautiful rebel (Isabelle Adjani) and alarm the CIA.
- (300)
- Elaine May
- PG-13
- Warren Beatty
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Play Trailer. Telling the truth can be dangerous business. Overview. Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime. Elaine May.
Ishtar. Directed by Elaine May • 1987 • United States. Starring Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani. Once synonymous with “box-office bomb,” this unjustly maligned road-movie comedy from national treasure Elaine May has been on a steady path to critical respectability ever since its disastrous premiere.
