Bullets Over Broadway
by Woody Allen
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Actor: Chazz Palminteri, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly, John Cusack, Mary-Louise ParkerDirector: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen
Producer: Charles H. Joffe
Producer: Helen Robin
Producer: J.E. Beaucaire
Producer: Jack Rollins
Producer: Jean Doumanian
Writer: Douglas McGrath
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Unknown
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-04-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Miramax
Movie Reviews of Bullets Over Broadway
Movie Review: A brilliant tapestry of humor on multiple levels!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the finest of Woody Allen's films melding past and present expressions of humor and visual scenes with so many outstanding actors performing at their peak. This is a clever, clever film with passion for all sorts of comedy- wit, satire, parody, double-entendre, everthing but a pie fight and that would have probably fit in as a "duel" between Cusack and Reiner over his wife but the verbal bohemian musings played just fine and I lack the audacity to second guess this beautiful work. Only Rob Reiner seemed at all familiar in his performance with too many Michael (Meathead) Stivic riffs but even in this case it was as the role was written. Enough has been written about John Cusack's almost other-wordly channeling of Mr Allen and this admirer whole-heartedly agrees with all of the praise granted. I am getting too wordy here, give yourself a gift, watch this film and you will more than likely want it for your collection!
Summary of Bullets Over Broadway
Big city mobsters and the Broadway stage collide hilariously in this side-splitting all-star comedy that had audiences and critics rolling in the aisles! John Cusack (SERENDIPITY, HIGH FIDELITY) stars as David Shayne, an idealistic young writer who'll do anything to get his first Broadway play off the ground -- even if it means teaming up with the mob! Surrounded by a wacky cast of characters including a gangster's ditzy girlfriend (Jennifer Tilly, LIAR, LIAR), a tipsy actress (Dianne Wiest in her Academy Award(R)-winning performance -- Best Supporting Actress, 1994), and a mob hit man (Chazz Palminteri, THE USUAL SUSPECTS), Shayne's got to pull it all off before the curtain falls and bullets start to fly!One of Woody Allen's best films of the '90s, Bullets over Broadway stars John Cusack as a virtual Woody surrogate, a neurotic, Jazz Age writer whose new play sounds wooden and unrealistic to a low-level mobster (Chazz Palminteri) assigned to watch over his boss's actress-girlfriend (Jennifer Tilly). When the hood starts contributing better story ideas and dialogue than what the official playwright can conjure, questions (not unlike those of Amadeus) about the price we pay to make art at the expense of other responsibilities are intriguingly raised. Palminteri gives a very interesting performance as the enforcer waking up to the desperate (and almost feminine) demands of his own creative psyche, and Dianne Wiest (who won an Oscar), Tracey Ullman, Jim Broadbent, and Jennifer Tilly are very funny together playing the ensemble cast of Cusack's play. --Tom Keogh
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