Don't Drink the Water

Don't Drink the Water

They Couldn't Wait To Get In. Now It's Hilarious Trying To Get Out!

Directed by Woody Allen

Produced by Jean Doumanian Productions, Magnolia Productions

199491 min5.5 / 10

A lighthearted Cold War comedy about a family trapped in an embassy, built on situational humor and bumbling incompetence rather than genuine peril.

Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international spying incident when Walter photographs a sunset in a sensitive region. In order to stay out of jail, the Hollanders take refuge in the American Embassy, which is temporarily being run by the absent Ambassador's diplomatically incompetent son, Axel.

Questions people ask

  • Is Don't Drink the Water sad? Barely. Less sad than 89% of films.

  • Is Don't Drink the Water easy watching? Yes. More comforting than 88% of films.

  • Does Don't Drink the Water end with hope? Yes. More hopeful than 81% of films.

  • Is Don't Drink the Water violent? Barely. Less violent than 76% of films.

  • Is Don't Drink the Water scary? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

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Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity10

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise12

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love8

How much audiences actually like it

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