Dear Dictator
Tatiana Mills, a sixteen year-old American girl, becomes pen pals with Anton Vincent, a notorious island nation dictator. He then teaches her how to start a revolution and overthrow the 'mean girls' in her high school.
12 May 1997, Haifa, Israel
13 September 1972, Uniontown, Pennsylvania, USA
July 4, 1980 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
14 March 1933, Rotherhithe, London, England, UK
18 December 1978, Toledo, Ohio, USA
2 July 1980, Mobile, Alabama, USA
12 May 1978, Pompton Plains, New Jersey, USA
March 16, 2018
The only people to blame here are Addario & Syracuse, who block and shoot every scene with an energy that makes each week's installment of The Big Bang Theory seem downright avant-garde by comparison.
March 15, 2018
Pleasant enough to watch, even innocuous, "Dear Dictator" is something that gets worse the more you think about it.
November 22, 2017
Clearly what's needed is a pointed satire highlighting the inherent absurdity governing global politics today, and Coup d'Etat may just fit the bill.
March 16, 2018
Something about Dear Dictator really rubbed me the wrong way. As comedy, it is utterly devoid of laughs. As social commentary, it is audacious only in how utterly condescending it ultimately proves to be.
March 21, 2018
Ineffective, intermittently painful attempt at world-weary funny business.
March 16, 2018
[A] just-shy-of-great teen comedy.
March 15, 2018
Distinguished only by the fact that co-writer-directors Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse convinced the great Michael Caine to costar in this thudding mishmash.
March 21, 2018
Life hacks from a warm and fuzzy dictator. What's not to loathe?
March 16, 2018
Weak comedy about teen, despot has language, sexuality.
March 14, 2018
Although the filmmakers name-check and appear to draw inspiration from Mean Girls, they've missed the mark on truly biting satire, leaving Dear Dictator toothless and silly.
March 16, 2018
There's something sharper and smarter in Dear Dictator, but that ground is left regrettably unexplored; it's a film that ultimately doesn't live up to its premise. Going deeper would require considerably more guts.
March 15, 2018
Too leaden for farce and too bland for satire, Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse's "Dear Dictator" wastes a potential gold mine of culture-clashing silliness on worn, high school movie clichés.
