FREE: Moscow on the Hudson [VHS] (1984)

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An older classic Robin Willaims movie, in good condition.

Robin Williams in his fuzzy, sensitive mode with bittersweet touches plays a musician in a Russian circus who gets talked into defecting by a pal and does so (though the pal bails on him at the last minute)--in the middle of Bloomingdale's. A great concept, to be sure, but writer-director Paul Mazursky doesn't seem to know where to go from there. Williams winds up living in the same kind of poverty that he did in Russia, casting about for a way to make a living while both wallowing and drowning in the sudden tidal wave of freedom. Mazursky wants to make a point about how little we appreciate what we have, but he fails to entertain in the process--or at least to engage in a consistent way. --Marshall Fine

Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Language: English, Russian
Rated: R (Restricted)
Number of tapes: 1
Studio: Sony Pictures
VHS Release Date: June 23, 1994
Run Time: 107 minutes