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Bookmark this pageBlame It On Rio (1984)
Director: Stanley Donen
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From Time Out Film Guide
Two middle-aged businessmen (Caine and Bologna) take a holiday in Rio without their wives but with their teenage daughters. When Bologna's daughter, a pyrogenic half-pint with the subtle approach of a heat-seeking missile, homes in on Caine, the result is a very predictable sort of French farcing about. Aside from a good exchange rate of one-liners, the chief feeling left by the movie (a remake of Claude Berri's Un Moment d'Egarement) is of a thin, cynical calculation. Sole reason to catch it would be to monitor one more step of Caine's increasing excellence as middle age overtakes him. CPea.Author: CPea
Cast & crew
Director: Stanley Donen
Producer: Stanley Donen
Cast: Michael Caine, Joseph Bologna, Valerie Harper, Michelle Johnson, Demi Moore full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 100 mins
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