Directed by Buck Henry
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)
The president of the United States, Bob Newhart, signs a treaty with a small island nation to get a miracle plant growing fertilizer. His advisers try to keep it from the public and eventually fake his death. His frustrated daughter, Gilda Radner, is sacrificed as a virgin to an island statue with a giant phallus. His wife, Madeline Kahn, is secretly an alcoholic. Despite the great cast and a politically correct landscape ripe for satire, Buck Henry's screenplay is a lifeless dud. Only one scene managed to get so much as a chuckle from me: the president operating a dummy on top of his limousine as the cavalcade goes through the streets of DC.
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