2018 · comedy · political · coming-of-age
Dear Dictator
Directed by Joe Syracuse, Lisa Addario1h 30m2018
When political turmoil forces a British-Caribbean dictator to flee his island nation, he seeks refuge and hides with a rebellious teenage girl in suburban America, and ends up teaching the young teen how to start a revolution and overthrow the "mean girls" in her high school.
Our read: Dear Dictator (2018) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy · political · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / political, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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