Don't Drink the Water (1994 film)
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| Directed by | Woody Allen |
| Produced by | Jean Doumanian Letty Aronson |
| Written by | Woody Allen |
| Narrated by | Ed Herlihy |
| Starring | Woody Allen Michael J. Fox Mayim Bialik Dom DeLuise Julie Kavner Edward Herrmann |
| Cinematography | Carlo Di Palma |
| Editing by | Susan E. Morse |
| Distributed by | ABC |
| Release date(s) | December 18, 1994 |
| Running time | 92 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Don't Drink the Water is a 1994 television film comedy written and directed by Woody Allen, based on a play that premiered on Broadway in 1966. This is the second filmed version of the play, after a 1969 theatrical version starring Jackie Gleason left Allen dissatisfied.[1]
The story revolves around a family of American tourists (played by Allen, Julie Kavner, and Mayim Bialik) that gets trapped behind the Iron Curtain. Michael J. Fox plays the American ambassador's bumbling son.[2]
This is the second time Allen wrote and performed in a movie made for television, after Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story, was filmed in 1971 but was never broadcast. It was supposed to have aired on PBS. A copy of the program is housed at the Paley Center for Media in New York City and Los Angeles.
Cast
- Woody Allen as Walter Hollander
- Michael J. Fox as Axel Magee
- Mayim Bialik as Susan Hollander
- Dom DeLuise as Father Drobney
- Julie Kavner as Marion Hollander
- Josef Sommer as Ambassador Magee
- Edward Herrmann as Mr. Kilroy
- Robert Stanton as Mr. Burns
- Rosemary Murphy as Miss Pritchard
- Austin Pendleton as Chef Oscar
- Vit Horejs as Krojak
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