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Bananas (1971)

★ 6.7 · 819 ratings on TMDB

The Revolutionist That Shook the World With LAUGHTER!

Bananas poster★ 6.7

When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.

DirectorWoody Allen
CastCarlos Montalbán, Charlotte Rae, Howard Cosell, Jack Axelrod, Jacobo Morales, Louise Lasser
GenresComedy
The emergence reading

Bananas keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing rebellion, power, corruption, justice.

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