Director Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse
Starring Michael Caine, Odeya Rush, Katie Holmes
Rated M
Score 3/6

When an outcast teen, Tatiana, gets a school assignment to write a letter to a person she admires, she jokingly writes to a foreign dictator named Anton because she likes his fashion sense. Anton takes to the admiration, and the two become unlikely pen pals. When a political coup forces the dictator to flee his island nation, he seeks refuge in the house of his only remaining friend, and ends up teaching the young teen how to start a revolution and overthrow the mean girls at her high school.

I stumbled across this one while browsing on Google Play. Before finding it, I don’t remember coming across a trailer for this one and to be honest this is the kind of movie that I’ve come to realise that I shouldn’t watch because well I’m to old.
I have to admit that there where some cringy moments of dialogue but Dear Dictator is a sweet movie with its heart in the right place so I would go as far to say that it’s a watchable movie because of the interesting plot concept that the filmmakers where working with. I was unfamiliar with the working of the directing team of Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse as well as Odeya Rush who played Tatiana.
I suppose what drew me to want to watch this was the fact that Michael Caine was cast as the dictator that Tatiana writes to. I thought that Caine was an odd choice but Rush really did seem to work well with him and I liked the scenes they had together. There were a few actors cast in this I had seen in a movie for awhile Katie Holmes, Jason Biggs and Seth Green.
It should be noted that one of the funnier scenes involved Michael Caine, Jason Biggs and a bottle of milk.