First DEAR DICTATOR Trailer Enjoy the first DEAR DICTATOR trailer! The film, co-written, and co-directed by Lisa Addario, and Joe Syracuse (Amateur Night), stars Michael Caine, Odeya Rush, Katie Holmes, Jason Biggs, and Seth Green. DEAR DICTATOR will be released in theaters on March 16. When political turmoil forces a British-Caribbean dictator to flee his island nation, he seeks refuge and hides with a rebellious teenage girl in suburban America, and ends up teaching the young teen how to start a revolution and overthrow the “mean girls” in her high school.