The other writer being Leon Capetanos, who worked with Mazursky on Down and Out in Beverley Hills and Richard Dreyfuss comedy Moon Over Parador (1988).
This is terrific. After a depressing opening in Moscow (actually Munich!) saxophonist on tour defects in Bloomingdales, security guard Cleavant Derricks takes him in, shop assistant Maria Conchita Alonso (playing an Italian?) becomes his girlfriend. But its not sugary, quite tough. And everyone he meets is from somewhere else (even Derricks quips he's also a refugee - from Alabama).
It was well overdue, first watched it 29 December 1989. Most fitting music, from David McHugh. Good acting down to smaller roles, including Saveliy Kramarov as KGB agent, himself only recently emigrated from Russia, and Elya Baskin as his friend. Wild Bill Hawthorn is a fictional character (played by George Kelly). The film they go to see - which Williams criticises - is An Unmarried Woman with Jill Clayburgh, directed by Mazursky.
DP Donald McAlpine.
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