Bananas (film)

Bananas
Theatrical release poster by Jack Davis
Directed byWoody Allen
Written by
Produced byJack Grossberg
Starring
CinematographyAndrew M. Costikyan
Edited by
Music byMarvin Hamlisch
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • April 28, 1971 (1971-04-28) (United States)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2 million
Box office$11.8 million

Bananas is a 1971 American comedy film directed by Woody Allen and starring Allen, Louise Lasser, and Carlos Montalban. Written by Allen and Mickey Rose, the film is about a bumbling New Yorker who, after being dumped by his activist girlfriend, travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest revolution.[1] Parts of the plot are based on the book Don Quixote, U.S.A. by Richard P. Powell.[2]

Filmed on location in New York City and Puerto Rico,[3] the film was released to positive reviews from critics and was number 78 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies" and number 69 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs in 2000.

  1. ^ "Bananas". Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on December 26, 2019. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
  2. ^ Lax, Eric (1991). Woody Allen: A Biography. New York: Knopf. p. 220. ISBN 978-0394583495.
  3. ^ "Locations for Bananas". Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on March 16, 2016. Retrieved May 11, 2012.