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Moscow on the Hudson
- Director: Paul Mazursky
- Writer: Paul Mazursky; Leon Capetanos
- Producer: Pato Guzman; Paul Mazursky
CGiii Comment
Williams sheds his Mork skin and certainly impresses.
The script is littered with gay characters and gay slurs.
If the director had gone down the multiculturalism avenue then, this might have been a decent film. Instead, it's a series of Americana snippets...by the end, it simply runs out of steam.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
A Russian circus visits the US. A clown wants to defect, but doesn't have the nerve. His saxophone playing friend however comes to the decision to defect in the middle of Bloomingdales. He is befriended by the black security guard and falls in love with the Italian immigrant from behind the perfume counter. We follow his life as he works his way through the American dream and tries to find work as a musician.
Cast & Characters
Robin Williams as Vladimir Ivanoff;
Maria Conchita Alonso as Lucia Lombardo;
Cleavant Derricks as Lionel Witherspoon, Bloomingdales Security Officer;
Alejandro Rey as Orlando Ramirez, Vladimir's Cuban Lawyer;
Saveli Kramarov as Boris, KGB man;
Elya Baskin as Anatoly Cherkasov;
Oleg Rudnik as Yuri;
Aleksandr Benyaminov as Vladimir's Grandfather;
Lyudmila Kramarevskaya as Vladimir's Mother;
Ivo Vrzal-Wiegand as Vladimir's Father;
Natalya Ivanova as Sasha;
Tiger Haynes as Lionel's Grandfather;
Eyde Byrde as Lionel's Mother;
Robert MacBeth as Lionel's Stepfather;
Donna Ingram-Young as Leanne Witherspoon