Moon Over Parador
“He's not the first actor to impersonate a president... but he may be the last.”
Underappreciated actor Jack Noah is on location in Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right-hand man makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse... to play the dictator. Jack's acting skills fool the masses but not close friends and employees of the dictator.
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52 people
Richard Dreyfuss
Jack Noah
Known for
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Jaws
Raúl Juliá
Roberto Strausmann
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The Addams Family
Street Fighter
Sonia Braga
Madonna
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Aquarius
The First Omen
Jonathan Winters
Ralph
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The Smurfs
The Flintstones
Sammy Davis Jr.
Self
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Ocean's Eleven
The Cannonball Run
Michael Greene
Clint
Known for
To Live and Die in L.A.
Lost in America
Polly Holliday
Midge
Known for
The Parent Trap
Gremlins
Milton Gonçalves
Carlo
Known for
Carandiru
Pelé: Birth of a Legend
Charo
Madame Loop
Known for
Thumbelina
Stop! That! Train!
Marianne Sägebrecht
Magda
Known for
Bagdad Cafe
The War of the Roses
Reinhard Kolldehoff
Gunther
Known for
All the Way Boys
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Richard Russell Ramos
Dieter Lopez
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Die Hard: With a Vengeance
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Paul Mazursky Director · Leon Capetanos Screenplay Charles G. Booth Story
Worldwide gross $11M · Budget $20M · United States release September 9, 1988
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Budget
$20,000,000
Worldwide gross
$11,444,204
Gross vs. budget
0.6×
Production
Universal Pictures
Production · Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · September 9, 1988
Theatrical
Germany
September 23, 1988 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
June 2, 1989 · Theatrical
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