Dear Dictator (2017)
Storyline
When political turmoil forces a British-Caribbean dictator to flee his island nation, he seeks refuge and hides with a rebellious teenage girl in suburban America, and ends up teaching the young teen how to start a revolution and overthrow the "mean girls" in her high school.
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Cast
Katie Holmes, Seth Green, Michael Caine, John Michael Weatherly, Jason Biggs, Odeya Rush, Belle Eseoghene Omabele, Natalie Pero, Glenn D. Bridges, Anthony Bryant, Adrian Voo, Jacob Grodnik, Jeremy Sykes, Jackson Beard, Fish Myrr, Jordyn Cavros, Hannah Joy Brown, Yvette Parish, Jay Willick, Rosemberg Salgado, Dana Joyce Schiller, Joe W Nowland, John Crosby, Arriebelle Kinney, Sarah Morgan Thompson, Evan Kelly, Debra Phillips, Norio Nishimura, Alexander Kovensky, Michael David Baldwin, Philip Trossarello, Andrew Conneff, Pamela Graham, Evan Ellis
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Reviews
80
Playful, irreverent and unafraid to be politically incorrect, the pair script with assurance and direct with stylish understatement, pairing character and physical comedy to entertaining effect.
75
The just-shy-of-great teen comedy Dear Dictator is the rare high-concept coming-of-age story with enough warmth and smart-ass charm to (hopefully!) make it accessible for a fairly wide cross-section of moviegoers.
50
If the filmmakers were as ballsy in scripting it as they had in asking Michael Caine to co-star in it, they’d have had something.
50
Pleasant enough to watch, even innocuous, Dear Dictator is something that gets worse the more you think about it.
40
Village Voice
Although the filmmakers name-check and appear to draw inspiration from Mean Girls, they’ve missed the mark on truly biting satire, leaving Dear Dictator toothless and silly.
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