A throwback to the counterculture heyday of renegade filmmaking that rejected the oppressive, bloated, bourgeois drivel produced by Hollywood in favor of ambitious but incoherent efforts like Dennis Hopper's notorious THE LAST MOVIE (1971). Masterminded by Bob Dylan and featuring a parade of famous faces in brief cameos, this ragged political satire takes place in an unnamed country that appears to be somewhere in Latin America but is in fact some awful, worst-possible-case scenario United States. There's fighting in the streets, the president-for-life (Richard Sarafian) is on his deathbed, and his greasy second-in-command (Mickey Rourke) is preparing to assume the t...
Released:
2003
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
107 mins