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Director: Elaine May

Elaine May was half of Nichols and May, wrote Heaven Can Wait and The Birdcage, and directed four films, one of which, Ishtar, became a byword for disaster and has been quietly reassessed ever since. It rates 6 out of 10 here.

Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman stand in the Sahara Desert wearing mismatched outfits and confused expressions.

Ishtar (1987) Review

Ishtar (1987) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Elaine May made a screwball comedy about two men with no talent, spent fifty-one million dollars doing it in the Sahara, and the name became shorthand for disaster before…