John Cusack to Star in 'Dictablanda' from Director Alejandro Agresti

After tackling political satire in War, Inc. (which was almost like an unofficial sequel to Grosse Pointe Blank), it looks like John Cusack is back to socially relevant, skewering comedies. Variety reports the actor will star in Dictablanda (translated as "Soft Dictator") a film described as a screwball comedy of manners involving international mayhem. The phrase itself refers to a word used by political scientists to describe a dictatorship in which civil liberties are allegedly preserved

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