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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.
May 15, 1987 · 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
May 15, 2022 · ISHTAR [1987] - Official Trailer (HD) It's the perfect time to revisit director Elaine May's #Ishtar - celebrate the 35th anniversary and get it now on Disc and Digital....
- 2 min
- 76.1K
- Sony Pictures Entertainment
Booked in Marrakech, two New York singers (Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman) stop in Ishtar, meet a beautiful rebel (Isabelle Adjani) and alarm the CIA.
- (59)
- Elaine May
- PG-13
- Warren Beatty
"Ishtar" is a truly dreadful film, a lifeless, massive, lumbering exercise in failed comedy. Elaine May, the director, has mounted a multimillion-dollar expedition in search of a plot so thin that it hardly could support a five-minute TV sketch.
May 21, 2022 · Ishtar is what happens when a studio writes the industry’s most mercurial movie star a blank check to make a film with a notoriously meticulous writer-director and stays the hell out of...
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With a song in their hearts, the CIA on their backs, a gorgeous revolutionary in their arms and two nations after their heads, Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman find adventure, romance and comedy on the road to ISHTAR.
