richard dreyfus star in moon over parador and a 1988 paul mazursky film also star raul julia and sonia braga and jonathan winter and charo . dreyfus play a new york actor and jonathan nolan and in the caribbean country of parador to make a film . when the dictator die suddenly and the secret police chief ( julia ) who be the one actually control the dictator and the country and draft jonathan to play the dictator and have notice the resemblance between them . soon jonathan be ensconce in the palace a alphonse simms and and simms prostitute girlfriend madonna ( braga ) who realize the switch promise to help him in any way she can . mazursky and who appear in drag a simms mother and give u a look at how the cia operate in third world country . the winter character and supposedly a salesman and be actually a cia operative . the film and however and flirt with but doesn not really tread on very serious ground and be more of a send up and and a funny one at that . richard dreyfus do a fabulous job a jonathan the actor and alphonse the dictator and create two separate character and nail both . the gorgeous sonia braga be great a madonna and and raul julia hand in a wickedly funny performance a strausmann and the man behind the dictator . it one of those performance where you never quite know what the character be think he can be pleasant or turn psycho at any moment . charo be on hand a a maid and manages to be funny and unobtrusive at the same time . a very good film and not a big blockbuster and but very entertaining .