Synopsis
When political turmoil forces a British-Caribbean dictator to flee his island nation, he seeks refuge and hides with a rebellious teenage girl in suburban America, and ends up teaching the young teen how to start a revolution and overthrow the "mean girls" in her high school.
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Cast
- Michael CaineGeneral Anton Vincent
- Odeya RushTatiana Mills
- Katie HolmesDarlene Mills
- Seth GreenDr. Charles Seaver
- Jason BiggsMr. Spines
- Adrian VooNeighbor
- Jackson BeardDenny
- Fish MyrrSarvia
- Jordyn CavrosGigi
- Hannah Joy BrownChivas
Recommendations
- 80
The Hollywood Reporter
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. - 75
RogerEbert.com
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. - 50
Movie Nation
If the filmmakers were as ballsy in scripting it as they had in asking Michael Caine to co-star in it, they’d have had something. - 50
Variety
Pleasant enough to watch, even innocuous, Dear Dictator is something that gets worse the more you think about it. - 40
Village Voice
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. - 40
The New York Times
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. - 38
Slant Magazine
The potential comic absurdities of the premise are squandered as soon as the film settles into a tepid coming-of-age tale. - 20
Los Angeles Times
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.
