Tagline: Vladimir Ivanoff walks into a department store to buy blue jeans, walks out with a girl friend, an immigration lawyer and a buddy. His life and theirs will never be the same again.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Paul Mazursky
Cast: Robin Williams, María Conchita Alonso, Cleavant Derricks, Alejandro Rey, Savely Kramarov, Elya Baskin, Oleg Rudnik, Aleksandr Benyaminov, Lyudmila Kramarevskaya, Ivo Vrzal-Wiegand, Natalya Ivanova, Tiger Haynes, Eyde Byrde, Robert MacBeth, Donna Ingram-Young, Olga Talyn, Aleksandr Narodetsky, Pierre Orcel, Stephanie Cotsirilos, Frederick Strother, Anthony Cortino, Betsy Mazursky, Kaity Tong, Royce Rich, Christopher Wynkoop, Lyman Ward, Joe Lynn, Joy Todd, Paul Mazursky, Thomas Ikeda, Barbara Montgomery, Dana Lorge, Adalberto Santiago, Sam Moses, Yakov Smirnoff, Sam Stoneburner, Michael Greene, Rosetta LeNoire, Sal Carollo
Release: 1984-06-04
Runtime: 115
Plot: A Russian circus visits the US. A clown wants to defect, but doesn't have the nerve. His saxophone playing friend however comes to the decision to defect in the middle of Bloomingdales. He is befriended by the black security guard and falls in love with the Italian immigrant from behind the perfume counter. We follow his life as he works his way through the American dream and tries to find work as a musician.
