1987 1h 47m Elaine May

Ishtar

Name: Ishtar
Genre: Comedy, Action & Adventure, Music & Musical, Mystery & Thriller
Released: 1987
Rating: 4.7
Cast: Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani, Charles Grodin

★ 4.7 IMDb

Comedy Action & Adventure Music & Musical Mystery & Thriller

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 CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.

Writer Elaine May

Cast Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani, Charles Grodin

DP Vittorio Storaro

Production Designer Paul Sylbert

Music Dave Grusin

Essays and Criticism

On this film

Ishtar by Jonathan Rosenbaum

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