Robin Williams is in his fuzzy, sensitive-with-bittersweet-touches mode in Moscow on the Hudson. Playing a musician in a Russian circus who gets talked into defecting by a pal and does so 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, Amazon.com [show more]
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Robin Williams stars as Russian circus musician Vladimir Ivanoff, who decides to defect to America whilst in Bloomingdales, New York. Despite having the KGB on his tail, Vladimir wins asylum and moves to Harlem to share the flat of black security guard Lionel (Cleavant Derricks). Despite finding life in America unfriendly and cold, he soon begins to love the country and the diverse group of people he meets, including Latin lover Lucia (Maria Conchita Alonso) and Cuban lawyer Orlando Ramirez (Alejandro Rey).
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