The dictator escapes, and, in America, beardless, he becomes friends with a vegan activist, Zoey (Anna Faris).

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"And we'll go up, up, up, but I'll climb a little higher, " sang Jason Mraz, Anna Faris and Rainn Wilson.

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"Wedding Banned" was planned as a romantic comedy about a divorced couple who try to stop their daughter from getting hitched, starring Robin Williams, Anna Faris, and Diane Keaton.

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The spirit is willing, but the material is never quite there, despite game performances from Anna Faris, Charlie Sheen, Queen Latifah, Leslie Nielsen, Jenny McCarthy, Pamela Anderson, George Carlin, and the Michael Jackson impersonator Edward Moss.

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On the lam in America (his second-in-command, played by Ben Kingsley, is out to get him), Aladeen becomes friends with a vegan activist, Zoey (Anna Faris), who runs the Free Earth Collective, an organic-produce store in Brooklyn.

NEWYORKER: The Dictator

Another film turkey this year: Anna Faris.

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The two insomniacs quickly find an intimacy with each other that has gone missing in Bob's marriage and can't ever have existed between Charlotte and John, who's more at home with his pal Kelly (Anna Faris), a motor-mouthed bimbo in town for a press junket to sell her latest movie in the all-important Japanese market.

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