SummaryWhen political turmoil forces a British-Caribbean dictator, General Anton Vincent (Michael Caine), to flee his island nation, he seeks refuge with his pen pal, a rebellious teenage girl (Odeya Rush) in suburban America, and teaches her how to start a revolution and overthrow the "mean girls" in her high school.
Directed By:Lisa Addario, Joe Syracuse
Written By:Lisa Addario, Joe Syracuse
Dear Dictator
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44
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4.7
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
44
25% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
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25% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Mar 12, 2018
80
Playful, irreverent and unafraid to be politically incorrect, the pair script with assurance and direct with stylish understatement, pairing character and physical comedy to entertaining effect.
Mar 16, 2018
75
The just-shy-of-great teen comedy Dear Dictator is the rare high-concept coming-of-age story with enough warmth and smart-ass charm to (hopefully!) make it accessible for a fairly wide cross-section of moviegoers.
Mar 15, 2018
50
Pleasant enough to watch, even innocuous, Dear Dictator is something that gets worse the more you think about it.
Mar 15, 2018
40
Simultaneously preposterous and dull, Dear Dictator is the kind of movie where music and wardrobe choices — like the mean girls’ stridently visible underwear — substitute for character.
Mar 14, 2018
40
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.
Mar 12, 2018
38
The potential comic absurdities of the premise are squandered as soon as the film settles into a tepid coming-of-age tale.
Mar 15, 2018
20
The cast, including Jason Biggs as a dorky social studies teacher, does what it can with the toothless, painfully unfunny, thoroughly unconvincing material. How some movies get made is truly a mystery.
User score
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4.7
18% Positive
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45% Mixed
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36% Negative
4 Ratings
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Jun 12, 2019
5
(Mauro Lanari)
There were the prerequisites for a good film finally politically incorrect, but family squabbles prevailed.
Apr 11, 2018
2
What were they going for with this movie? Were they trying to do a fun quirky comedy? Because this movie is everything but funny. Were they trying to make an edgy politically charged dramedy? Because from the plot it certainly looks so but it fails miserably. The acting was very poor, the movie wasn't funny, the plot was ludicrous and the movie was ultimately extremely boring. Watch it at your own risks.
Production Company:
- Hector Coup
- Defiant Pictures
- Aloe Entertainment
- Bluegrass Pictures
- WYSJ Media
- Digital Ignition Entertainment
- Hindsight Media
- Tunnel Post
- Wicked Magic Productions
Release Date:Mar 16, 2018
Duration:1 h 30 m
Tagline:She thought she was a rebel...Until she met a real one
