Bananas (film)

Bananas
Theatrical release poster by Jack Davis
Directed by	Woody Allen
Written by	Woody Allen Mickey Rose
Produced by	Jack Grossberg
Starring	Woody Allen Louise Lasser Howard Cosell Carlos Montalban Natividad Abascal
Cinematography	Andrew M. Costikyan
Edited by	Ron Kalish Ralph Rosenblum
Music by	Marvin Hamlisch
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	April 28, 1971 (1971-04-28) (United States)
Running time	82 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2 million
Box office	$11.8 million

Bananas is a 1971 American comedy film directed by Woody Allen and starring Allen, Louise Lasser, and Carlos Montalban. Written by Allen and Mickey Rose, the film is about a bumbling New Yorker who, after being dumped by his activist girlfriend, travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest revolution.^[1] Parts of the plot are based on the book Don Quixote, U.S.A. by Richard P. Powell.^[2]

Filmed on location in New York City and Puerto Rico,^[3] the film was released to positive reviews from critics and was number 78 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies" and number 69 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs in 2000.