Bullets Over Broadway | John Cusack, Dianne Wiest

Bullets Over Broadway | John Cusack, Dianne Wiest | Don't speak, just watch and laugh!

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Bullets Over Broadway

	Bullets Over Broadway John Cusack, Dianne Wiest Walt Disney Video, 1996 average customer review:based on 45 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great

Why do "reviewers" of Woody Allen always have to qualify their praise with something lame like "not his best, but...". It sucks! This move is as good as any Woody Allen movie I've ever seen, and that's saying a hell of a lot, and I've seen a hell of a lot of them. Own a lot too. This movie was colorful, funny, filled with fascinating characters, had more plot twists that a dog's hind leg, and the perfect ending. It was as original as anything could possibly be. I won't give away any of the plot, I'll leave that to the clods who have nothing else to say about the picture. Woody Allen is not in this movie, that disappointed me the first time I saw it, but now that I've seen it again, I don't mind. It was great. Though as a rule I prefer his movies with him in them. Also the movie had substance and structure. It was well-constructed and moved fast. I liked it a lot. Note: pay attention to the background music (songs actually) at significant events in the flick. I highly recommend it.

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Don't speak, just watch and laugh!

Bullets Over Broadway is an extraordinary comedy directed by Woody Allen (Annie Hall) and starring a hilarious cast including John Cusack (Say Anything), Dianne Wiest (Footloose), Jennifer Tilly (Liar Liar), Chazz Palminteri (A Bronx Tale), Rob Reiner (Sleepless In Seattle), Jim Broadbent (Iris), Mary Louise Parker (The Client), and Jack Warden (Night And The City).

Cusack plays David Shayne, a struggling 1920's playwright who finally wraps up a new script. He's able to convince a has-been actress Helen Sinclair, played by Wiest in her Oscar winning role, and a distinguished English actor Warner who has a huge appetite, played by Broadbent. The only way that David will be able to have his play hit broadway is if he allows a gangster's lover Olive, played by Tilly, who proves to be a terrible actress. Just when David thinks things are going bad, Olive's gangster bodyguard Cheech, played hysterically by Palminteri, interferes with David's script and demands to make changes, while Warner and Olive begin a secret affair.

The film's comedic approach and Woody Allen's brilliant directing and screenplay makes Bullets Over Broadway a splendid film, and one of the best comedies of the past 15 years.

Recommended

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Very Entertaining Comedy

I purchased this movie because it is directed by Woody Allen and stars Jennifer Tilly. It is a comedy that takes a light-hearted look at Broadway and the mafia. Being as though my favorite movie genres are comedies and gangster movies, you can imagine how much I enjoyed this one. It's not a hilarious movie, but it is very clever. I'd recommend it to anyone

Terrific Farce

Reminds me of Richard Bissell's novel "Say, Darling," a witty send-up of the process of launching a Broadway musical suspiciously resembling "The Pajama Game."
Woody Allen's vision here takes on an interface of commercial theatre, Runyonesque gangsters (though closer to the Sopranos than "Guys And Dolls")and Greenwich Village intellectuals (Think about Dave Van Ronk reminiscing about the San Remo in Scorsese's "No Direction Home" or the lighter side of "Reds."). The John Cusack character is how Barton Fink might have turned out if he hadn't gone to Hollywood.

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Everything is a Trade Off

A neurotic struggling writer (John Cusack playing a young Woody) makes a deal with the devil when he begins to collaborate with a genuinely talented amature playwrite (Chazz Palminteri). The fact that the amature playwrite happens to be a mob hitman and bodyguard is merely a minor complication until the amature decides to take over the play's production and starts whacking the less talented cast. Woody makes his best comedy when he is darkly comic. Here, both Broadway and mob stereotypes get the treatment. Woody seems to be saying: everything comes at a cost. All successes and all loves are, in the end, products of compromise and longing. What do you want most and what part of you are you willing to give up for it.

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