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      Don't Drink the Water

      PG 1994 1h 37m Comedy List
      44% 9 Reviews Tomatometer 41% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score An inept U.S. diplomat (Michael J. Fox) romances the daughter (Mayim Bialik) of a New Jersey caterer (Woody Allen) trapped in an embassy behind the Iron Curtain. Read More Read Less

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      steve d Don't watch the film. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review william k Lackluster Woody Allen comedy made for TV comes with good cast and all the typical ingredients one would expect from this director, but it's all quite haphazard and, strangely, not funny at all. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member I couldn't stop laughing. It's hilarious. I mean, it's not the best Woody Allen film, but still very good. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Woddy Allen returns to his aburd comedies ways of his first movies Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Typical Woody Allen film. Not as good as his previous films but mildly amusing. Allen does his neurotic father shtick where he and his family are visiting an East European country during the Cold War. While there he accidentally takes a picture of a military base and he is presumed to be a spy. The family retreats to the American embassy where the inept son of the US ambassador tries to help them get back to the US. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member #WoodyAllenRetro Podcast Project Woody takes a shot at adapting his original play from a previous movie which he could not directly control at the time - although fun - this feels just like a movie of it's time when woody started out in the late 60's - you can feel the isolation a play transformed to a movie can have here especially when the movie part is not taken full advantage of - overall a decent watch, great cast as always but feels limited and after 30mins feels like we've seen the routine - would have loved to see michael j fox in a proper feature written and directed by woody but as is - its decent enough Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      David Kaplan Kaplan vs. Kaplan Rated: 3/5 Mar 1, 2008 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 3/5 Aug 27, 2005 Full Review Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Rated: 2/5 Jan 2, 2005 Full Review Steve Crum Kansas City Kansan OK Woody Allen play-based story. Rated: 3/5 Oct 16, 2004 Full Review Randy Shulman Metro Weekly (Washington, DC) Rated: 1/5 Jul 17, 2004 Full Review Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality & Practice Rated: 2/5 Mar 27, 2004 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis An inept U.S. diplomat (Michael J. Fox) romances the daughter (Mayim Bialik) of a New Jersey caterer (Woody Allen) trapped in an embassy behind the Iron Curtain.
      Director
      Woody Allen
      Screenwriter
      Woody Allen
      Production Co
      Jean Doumanian Productions, Sweetland Films
      Rating
      PG
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      May 22, 2017
      Runtime
      1h 37m