Usually when I think Robin Williams I think of him going off the handle and yelling wildly and stuff such as that. However, in this film where he plays a Russian who defects to the United States during the height of the cold war he actually does so in a more calm manner than I am used to seeing him. He does a Russian very well here, and less crazy like the one he portrayed in Nine Months (though do not remember if he was Russian in that one). In this film he plays a musician in Russia who defects when he sees his friend taken by the KGB. Most of the film is him struggling to adjust to the United States way of life, which is vastly different than what he is used to and not all that it was advertised to be. It is funny at times, and it gets dramatic too. It is also a fairly long film for a comedy with a nearly two hour running time. Still, for the most part it is a funny and entertaining film and it does show a person the phenomenon known as culture shock as this person goes from a place where one has to wait in lines for everything to a place where there is no such restrictions. However, he also goes from a place where there is virtually no crime to a place that is fraught with it. So it kind of looks at things in many different ways.