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Moon Over Parador is a 1988 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by Paul Mazursky, who co-wrote the screenplay with Leon Capetanos. The film is based on the short story "Caviar for His Excellency" by Charles G. Booth and is a loose remake of the 1939 film The Magnificent Fraud. It stars Richard Dreyfuss as a little-known actor hired to impersonate a deceased Latin American dictator, with Raul Julia…
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Ordinary person being unwittingly forced to take identity of someone important or powerful is motive that can work well in works of fiction, especially comedies. Not all of such works, however, fulfil that potential, like in the case of *Moon over Parador*, 1988 film directed by Paul Mazursky. The film is based on “Caviar for His Excellency”, unpublished short story by Classic Hollywood screenwriter Charles B. Booth…More
