Moon Over Parador

This movie is a classic must watch, not found in your local DVD Rental Store, but it should be. When I watched it I found it hilarious to the point of making my gut hurt. Richard Dreyfuss is boarderline losing his... Full review

Superb comic farce from Paul Mazursky, Richard Dreyfuss, plays Jack Noah a fairly successful actor- who is On location shooting a film in a fictitious Latin American banana republic Parador,Ruled by the Fascist, Alfonse Sims who unfortunately has succumbed of... Full review

This is strictly speaking great. It's difficult to conceive of this movie working with any replacements in the cast - not only because the cast are so good, but also because they work so well together and because the production... Full review

This movie contains one of Richard Dreyfuss's greatest performances, as an actor who plays a dictator and does it so convincingly that his own mother does not detect the impostor. Also, this movie is funny, yet has a serious side... Full review

MOON OVER PARADOR, Paul Mazursky's follow-up to the brilliant 'social class' comedy, DOWN AND OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS (1986), reteams the director with star Richard Dreyfuss, in one of the funniest 'Look-alike on the Throne' comedies of the past two... Full review

As a community theater actor who works hard at it but doesn't take acting too seriously, I'm always amused by those who treat it as Great Art. This movie skewers the "Actor's Craft" mercilessly while dishing up a lot of... Full review

Textbook example of an underestimated movie.Although one can watch this movie over and over again and laugh every single time and still see something new in it, it's still regarded as just another funny picture. And although the movie has... Full review

Paul Mazursky's film is under-rated in my opinion; maybe because the film never takes itself seriously.The Dictator of a South American state dies suddenly. An American actor, Jack Noah, played by Richard Dreyfuss, happens to be there and is forced... Full review

Paul Mazursky succeeds in criticizing and making a parody of a third world country, in this case, represented by the imaginary nation of Parador. Richard Dreyfuss does his best by playing the part of his life, Paradorian President Simms. Sonia... Full review

Hilarious comedy with Dreyfuss playing an actor who is asked by tough guy Julia to impersonate a dictator who has turned cold and very dead. Lots of laughs to be credited to director Mazursky, who makes an appearance in drag... Full review

There are some funny bits here, as well as some inspired, but all in all, Moon Over Parador proves to be too mixed in its styles to call a truly good comedy. Some of the social commentary is light, but very welcome, particularly in how it sees banana republics embrace dictators with the facade of democracy, while the US government plays an active role in assuring its own rights in the mix in a tit-for-tat kind of way that doesn't exactly help the people of that country. ... Full Review

If the Dreyfuss character in "Moon Over Parador" had been conceived on a more realistic basis, perhaps Mazursky and Dreyfuss could have had more fun exploring the true insecurities of the profession, instead of the stereotyped ones. In Paul Mazursky 's " Moon Over Parador ," Richard Dreyfuss explores that possibility as a second-rate New York actor who is shooting a movie on location in Parador when the military dictator is finally killed by his imprudent lifestyle. ... Full Review

This morning as I perambulated about during my habitual pre-dawn stroll, I happened upon the Depression-era Cockney bootblack who first appeared in my Scenes From A Mall entry. ... Full Article

Paul Mazursky's "Moon Over Parador" gives us something we probably didn't know we wanted -- an actor's-eye view of the world. It's about role-playing as a metaphor, a self-reflexive tale about the artifice of high office, but it owes as... ... Full Article

Jack Noah (Richard Dreyfuss) is all actor: Self-possessed, obsessive, vulnerable, and an addict for praise, his soul burns with "the craft." Having just finished a grade-Z straight-to-cable crime thriller in the fictional South American country of Parador, he gets the... ... Full Article