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Bananas

Bananas

Comedy · 1971

When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.

Movie details

Bananas

“The Revolutionist That Shook the World With LAUGHTER!”

1971 Comedy 1h 22m

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TMDB

6.7 / 10

Community rating

When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.

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What this film says about your taste.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Woody Allen

Written by

Woody Allen · Mickey Rose

Woody Allen

Woody Allen

Fielding Mellish

Louise Lasser

Louise Lasser

Nancy

Carlos Montalbán

Carlos Montalbán

General Emilio M. Vargas

Nati Abascal

Nati Abascal

Yolanda

Jacobo Morales

Jacobo Morales

Esposito

Miguel Ángel Suárez

Miguel Ángel Suárez

Luis

René Enríquez

René Enríquez

Diaz

Court is in session

Put Bananas on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Popcorn Loyalist

“It owes the canon nothing.”

The movie pursues immediacy and audience pleasure without begging institutions to certify its worth.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“Easy pleasure, short half-life.”

It moves efficiently through the moment but offers little reason to keep arguing once the credits end.