Moscow on the Hudson R
Vladimir Ivanoff walks into a department store to buy blue jeans, walks out with a girl friend, an immigration lawyer and a buddy. His life and theirs will never be the same again.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 57 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 1, 2020
- Originally Released: 1984
- Label: Mill Creek Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robin Williams | |
Performer: | Alejandro Rey, Maria Conchita Alonso, Cleavant Derricks, Elya Baskin & Yakov Smirnoff | |
Directed by | Paul Mazursky | |
Edited by | Richard Halsey | |
Screenwriting by | Paul Mazursky & Leon Capetanos | |
Produced by | Paul Mazursky | |
Director of Photography: | Donald McAlpine |
Entertainment Reviews:
Essentially a vehicle for Williams to show off his manic shtick (and display the considerable acting skills that would later propel him into Oscar territory)...
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Film4
...A sweet, beautifully performed picture....Cleavant Derricks is especially good...
Variety
Moscow would be in a lot of trouble without a superbly sensitive portrayal by Robin Williams of a gentle Russian circus musician who makes a sudden decision to defect while visiting the US.
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Variety
Gives patriotism a good name with its plentiful emotional and comic fireworks
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Spirituality and Practice
"Moscow on the Hudson" lets a potentially wonderful comic hero--and a great deal of thematic suggestiveness--slip away while ostensibly following his process of self-discovery and self-realization in the Land of the Free.
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Washington Post
Rating: B- --
Mazuersky's fable of culture collision and assimilation has a certain charm, largely due to the acting of the young Robin Williams as a Russian immigrant.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 3/5 --
As a fish-out-of-water comedy-drama, it works well.
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Empire Magazine
Product Description:
Vladimir Ivanoff (Robin Williams) is a Russian saxophone player for the Moscow circus. Life in Russia is difficult and unrewarding, but he silently accepts the corruption of the Communist party and the constant threat of KGB spies because he enjoys his job, has a steady girlfriend, and loves his family. However, his friend Anatoly (Elya Baskin) dreams of freedom in America and makes plans to defect when the circus announces an American tour to New York. Their trip to the Big Apple is thrilling, full of exciting revelations, and on their last day in New York they are allowed 30 minutes to shop in Bloomingdale's, surrounded by tempting American merchandise. While Anatoly loses his nerve, Vladimir is awakened with the desire to defect and manages to outrun the KGB. Suddenly Vladimir is a free man with no family or friends and no chance of ever returning to his homeland. With the help of a Bloomingdale's security guard (Cleavant Derricks) and a pretty Italian makeup counter saleswoman (Maria Conchita Alonso), Vladimir finds a place to stay and a wide variety of odd jobs to start out his new life in the United States. As Vladimir struggles to make it in America, he longs for his family and his homeland, wrestling with the magnitude of his choice. Williams gives an honest and heartfelt performance in this touching and witty comedy by Paul Mazursky.
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