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COUP D'ETAT

By Lisa ADDARIO, Joe SYRACUSE

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Comedy - Completed 2016

A teenage girl and a dictator become unlikey, yet innocent pen pals, but when the dictator is forced out of his country, he suddenly shows up at her house to seek refuge with his only remaining friend.

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Lisa ADDARIO, Joe SYRACUSE
- Writer(s)
- Lisa ADDARIO, Joe SYRACUSE
- Cast
- Michael CAINE, Katie HOLMES, Odeya RUSH
- Producer(s)
- Lucas JARACH, Robert OGDEN BARNUM
- Synopsis
- When an outcast teenage girl, TATIANA (Rush) gets a school assignment to write a letter to a person she admires, she jokingly writes a letter to a foreign dictator named HECTOR (Caine) simply because she likes his fashion sense. Hector takes to the admiration and the two become unlikely pen pals. However, when Hector has to flee his country during a coup d’etat, he seeks refuge in the house of his only remaining friend who can help, Tatiana, who is forced to take him in when he shows up at her door.