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ORIGINAL TITLE

The Dictator

YEAR

2012	Apple Trailer

RUNNING TIME

83 min.

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COUNTRY

(New) Visual section

DIRECTOR

Larry Charles

SCREENWRITER

Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Berg, David Mandel, Jeff Schaffer

COMPOSER

Erran Baron Cohen

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Lawrence Sher

CAST

Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley, Jason Mantzoukas, Bobby Lee, Anthony Mangano, Jeff Grossman, Megan Fox, John C. Reilly, Edward Norton

STUDIO/PRODUCER

Paramount Pictures

GENRE

Comedy | Black comedy. Parody. Politics

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.

PRO REVIEWS

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"The easily offended will be appalled. The rarely offended may be appalled. But they'll have to stop laughing long enough to realize it (...) Rating: **** (out of five)" (Elizabeth Weitzman: New York Daily News)

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"'The Dictator' leaves you laughing helplessly. It starts at outrageous and rockets on from there (...) Rating: **1/2 (out of four)" (Peter Travers: Rolling Stone)

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"'The Dictator' is funny, in addition to being obscene, disgusting, scatological, vulgar, crude and so on (...) Rating: *** (out of four)" (Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times)

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"Never achieves the stinging parodic heights of Cohen's Borat movie, but manages a better batting average than his most recent misfire, Bruno (...) Rating: * (out of four)" (Ann Hornaday: The Washington Post)

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"Baron Cohen's demonstrations of political 'outrageousness' feel all too canned, planned, and defanged" (Lisa Schwarzbaum: Entertainment Weekly)

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