You don't Mess With the Zohan

Director: Dennis Dugan
Starring: Adam Sandler, John Turturro
Year: 2008

Zohan Dvir works as an Israeli Special Agent and lives with his parents in Israel. He wants to give up this life full of dangerous encounters with Palestinians. While in the process of apprehending a Palestinian activist known simply as the Phantom, he fakes his death, hides in a dog-kennel on a plane bound for New York, and decides to try his hand as a hair-stylist. He finally gets his shot working at a Palestinian-owned hair salon in New York, but his past catches up with him.

Comments: Steve wanted to hate this movie, but he couldn't help laughing. The stereotypes of Israelis in NY are sharp and in exquisitely bad taste.

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