
Variety
A backstage comedy bolstered by healthy shots of prohibition gangster melodrama and romantic entanglements.
Full reviewWoody Allen backstage crime comedy set at the height of the Roaring Twenties. Stars John Cusack and Dianne Wiest.
David Shayne (Cusack) is a straight-arrow playwright who plans to stand firm against compromising his work, but quickly abandons that stance when his producer (Jack Warden) finds a backer to mount his show on Broadway. There's just one catch, however: the backer is a mobster (Joe Viterelli) who sees Shayne's play as a vehicle for his dizzy, talent-free girlfriend, Olive (Jennifer Tilly).
LessA backstage comedy bolstered by healthy shots of prohibition gangster melodrama and romantic entanglements.
Full reviewMr. Allen has drawn on autobiographical specifics in other films, but this may be the one in which he speaks most seriously from the heart.
Full reviewOne of Allen's best and most revealing comedies, as much a moral meditation as it is dazzling fun.
Full reviewThe movie is very funny and, in the way it follows its logic wherever it leads, surprisingly tough.
Full reviewWe aren’t aware of any way to watch Bullets Over Broadway in New Zealand. If we’ve got that wrong, please contact us.
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