Ishtar (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 6, 2013
- Originally Released: 1987
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman & Isabelle Adjani | |
Performer: | Charles Grodin, Jack Weston, Tess Harper & Carol Kane | |
Directed by | Elaine May | |
Screenwriting by | Elaine May | |
Composition by | Dave Grusin | |
Cinematography by | Vittorio Storaro | |
Produced by | Warren Beatty |
Entertainment Reviews:
Though far from a masterpiece, the movie is often hilarious in a sly, seemingly improvisational way.
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Orlando Sentinel
Rating: 3/4 --
Ishtar is a good movie, but you can't help but wonder if, lurking somewhere in those cans of outtakes, there isn't a great movie, too.
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Chicago Tribune
[In] this hilarious offshoot of the Hope-Crosby Road pictures, Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty are a pair of abjectly talentless singer-songwriters whose vaunted perspectives of themselves give the movie its humor...
Film Comment
This Elaine May comedy was the most underappreciated commercial movie of 1987. It isn't quite as good as May's previous features, but it's still a very funny work by one of this country's greatest comic talents.
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Chicago Reader
Ishtar is cute, reasonably pleasant entertainment, but no motion picture oasis for Hoffman, Beatty or their fans.
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Rating: 0.5/4 --
The film fails at every level.
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Chicago Tribune
Beatty goes along with the casting joke of playing the nerd sidekick to Hoffman's slick loverboy. But zany antics aren't his forte. Hoffman's impishness serves the film better until the sheer weight of the production grinds him down
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People Magazine
Product Description:
Two down-and-out singer/songwriters (played by Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty) who dream of becoming the next Simon and Garfunkel find themselves hitting the bottom of the barrel after their women leave them and their careers never get off the ground. Out of money, and with no prospects of work in New York, they grudgingly agree to accept a gig in Morocco. Before they even leave the airport in Morocco, they are suddenly ensnared into the revolution brewing in the country, and unwittingly get sucked into Middle Eastern political turmoil beyond their wildest dreams. Before their Moroccan adventure is over, Chuck and Lyle question their trust, their loyalty, and their sanity--but never their talent. A would-be road picture a la Hope and Crosby, the film is worth seeing for Hoffman's and Beatty's dry portrayals of down-on-their-luck ne'er-do-wells, and their earnest, off-key renditions of the film's original songs. Additionally, the film was beset by production and budget challenges that are now the stuff of publicity legend.