Moscow on the Hudson

Who knew all the things you could get at Bloomingdale's in Manhattan. A very hairy Robin Williams plays a musician for the Moscow circus performing in New York. A very funny string of events, beginning in Moscow, and ending with a defection in Bloomingdale's sets this story in motion.

Maria Conchita Alonso is beautiful as William's new American girlfriend. And Cleavant Derricks is the security guard to whom Williams defects. And the late great Alejandro Rey plays Williams immigration attorney. Funny stuff.

This poignant story is as timely now as it was 25 years ago. Everyone wants to be in America. Everyone in America is from somewhere else. Williams goes from a tiny apartment with 3 generations of his own family to an identical situation with a black family in New York.

Watch this movie with someone who has been a stranger in a strange land. Like this one.