Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World PG-13
What happens when the U.S. Government sends Albert Brooks to India and Pakistan to find out what makes the over 300 million Muslims in the region laugh?
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.85:1
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: June 27, 2017
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Albert Brooks | |
| Featured: | Amy Ryan, Penny Marshall, John Carroll Lynch, Jon Tenney, Sheetal Sheth & Fred Dalton Thompson | |
| Directed by | Albert Brooks | |
| Edited by | Anita Brandt Burgoyne | |
| Screenwriting by | Albert Brooks | |
| Composition by | Michael Giacchino | |
| Produced by | Steve Bing & Herb Nanas | |
| Director of Photography: | Thomas E. Ackerman |
Entertainment Reviews:
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The movie has a perversely unifying effect: Muslims, Christians and Jews may not be able to agree on exactly who the heck Jesus is, but they're fully capable of bonding in boredom.
Salon.com
Rating: 3/4 --
Those who like their humor wry and dry will be rewarded by a nuanced study of the way self-absorption can keep people disconnected, be they comedians, governments, or you and me.
Christianity Today
I think this thing is just flat and dead.
Ebert & Roeper
Rating: B- --
Brooks is going to India to shoot a movie (most of it filmed in New Delhi) about how to get laughs on foreign soil.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: A- --
Looking for Comedy succeeds smashingly both as a comedy and as a savvy deconstruction of comedy.
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AV Club
In Albert Brooks's new film, we get another plausible explanation of why we fight -- and it may be the most unsettling of all.
The Nation
Rating: 3/4 --
I like all of Brooks's features, which are brilliantly conceptualized and deftly executed. This one's no exception, and some of the laughs are genuinely cathartic.
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Chicago Reader
Description by OLDIES.com:
A nation called out in its time of need. Albert Brooks answered. Yes, he would venture into India and Pakistan on a top assignment for the USA. Yes, he would see if comedy could achieve what diplomacy and power has not - make the region's 300-million Muslims like us. And, yes, he ignites war in the process.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 72,669
- UPC: 888574547042
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