Bananas
Apr 28 1971
•1h 22m
•Comedy
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.
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Woody Allen
Fielding Mellish
Louise Lasser
Nancy
Carlos Montalbán
General Emilio M. Vargas
Nati Abascal
Yolanda
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