Ishtar

“Telling the truth can be dangerous business.”

Lyle Rogers (Warren Beatty) and Chuck Clarke (Dustin Hoffman) write songs together and want, more than anything, to be famous for them. Nobody will book two songwriters this bad, so they take a gig at a hotel in Morocco and end up caught between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow him. Elaine May sends them into that standoff still sure the next verse is the one that makes their name.