Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
Elaine May’s last directorial feature was destroyed by industry mythology that called it the worst film of the decade. The film is a deliberate, gentle comedy about two terrible songwriters that has slowly been reclaimed as exactly what May said it was: a sweet movie about failure.
