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You Don't Mess with the Zohan

Lather. Rinse. Save the world.

You expect me to believe it gets *this* big?

An Israeli commando fakes his own death to follow his dream of becoming a famous hair stylist in New York. When he fails to land his dream job, he reluctantly accepts a position at a Palistinian-run salon. His natural talent soon emerges, and he becomes their star stylist and a favourite with the ladies. However, a Palestinian spy recognises him, and reports him to his arch-enemy, a notorious Palestinian terrorist, who makes plans to kill him. Between all of this, they have to deal with a property developer trying to exploit tensions between the Jews and Palestinians for his own commercial gain.

112 minutes, No persons under 13 (Language, Sex, Violence)
Action, Comedy.

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Credits
Cast	Adam Sandler, John Tututto, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Nick Swardson, Lainie Kazan, Ido Mosseri, Rob Schneider, Dave Matthews and a host of others
Director	Dennis Dugan
Screenplay	Adam Sandler, Robert Smigel, Judd Apatow
Music	Rupert Gregson-Williams
Cinematography	Michael Barrett
Editing	Tom Costain
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS
Soundtrack	Not available
Made in	2008
Produced by	Happy Madison Productions, Relativity Media
SA Distributor	Ster-Kinekor

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Comedy, drama
Language	Strong, moderate frequency
Nudity	Several scenes
Sex	Continuous strong sexual innuendo and references
Violence	Several disturbing and imitable scenes
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy
Drug abuse
Comments	This movie is very crude and has some scenes that may be of concern in terms of cruelty to animals which impressionable youngsters could imitate.
These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines.

ScreenIt Report (USA)
Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross	Guns / Weapons	Profanity

Alcohol / Drugs	Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour	Frightening / Tense Scenes

Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes	Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
South African Media
Cape Argus/The StarAtiyyah Khan	10
Cape TimesMark Olsen	5
iAfrica.comGideon Nieuwoudt	3
The CitizenDavid Jenkin	12
24.comMegan Kakora	5
International Media
Chicago Sunday TimesRoger Ebert	15
eye Weekly (Canada)Adam Nayman	5
Rolling Stone (US)Peter Travers	10
ScreenIt (USA)	6
Metacritic.com36 critics	11
RottenTomatoes.com146 critics	9
RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer	7
Internet (IMDB)13004 Netizens	11

Average .. 42%	8

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