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Bananas
Bananas is a 1971 American comedy film directed by Woody Allen and starring Allen, Louise Lasser, and Carlos Montalbán. Written by Allen and Mickey Rose, the film is about a bumbling New Yorker who, after being dumped by his activist girlfriend, travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest revolution. Parts of the plot are based on the book Don Quixote, U.S.A. by Richard P. Powell.
Plot
The film opens with Howard Cosell's coverage of the assassination of the president of the fictional "banana republic" of San Marcos and a coup d'état that brings Gen. Emilio Molina Vargas to power.
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| author | Mickey Rose Woody Allen |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | New York City South America |
| director | Woody Allen |
| editor | Ralph Rosenblum Ron Kalish |
| genre | comedy political satire |
| keywords | assassination banana republic blue-collar blue-collar worker capture claim connect coup d\'etat court clerk how to j edgar hoover miss america social activism social activist spring travel |
| musicBy | Marvin Hamlisch |
| producer | Jack Grossberg |
| publisher | United Artists |
| recordedAt | New York City Peru |
| theme | screwball comedy |