while the kiss of the spider woman cast raul julia a a political prisoner in an unidentified latin american country and this time he work for a dictator in a fictional latin american country . specifically and the dictator suddenly drop dead and so julia replaces el presidente with a broadway actor ( richard dreyfus ) shoot a movie in the country . from there and dreyfus have to figure out how to be a dictator and all the while balance it with his own life . be it appropriate to turn the tense situation in latin america into comedy . well and moon over parador do a good job with it . no matter what they do in this movie and they pull it off . it just go to show why richard dreyfus be one of the great actor of our era and and what we lose when raul julia die . definitely worth see . also star sonia braga ( who co star with raul julia in tkotsw ) and jonathan winter and sammy davis jr. i agree represent the first lady be hot .