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Article: With a snip here and a smack there, Adam Sandler amusingly tackles terrorism in `Zohan'
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 6, 2008
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Movie Review
You Don't Mess With the Zohan
Directed by: Dennis Dugan
Written by: Adam Sandler, Robert Smigel, and Judd Apatow
Starring: Sandler, Rob Schneider, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Lainie
Kazan, and John Turturro
At: Boston, Fenway, and suburbs
Running time: 113 minutes
Rated: PG-13 (crude and sexual content throughout, language and
nudity)
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If "You Don't Mess With the Zohan" isn't the bravest movie ever
made about current Arab-Israeli relations, it's at least the bravest
movie ever made about current Arab-Israeli relations featuring a
former Mossad agent who shags Lainie Kazan.
Nothing freaks the filmmakers out. Adam Sandler, as the agent,
catches fish with his derriere, while John ...
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