Variety
A backstage comedy bolstered by healthy shots of prohibition gangster melodrama and romantic entanglements.
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Bullets Over Broadway
Woody 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).
Less1994Rating: M, Offensive language98 minsUSA
ComedyCrime
- Director:
- Woody Allen ('Annie Hall', 'Midnight in Paris', 'Bananas')
- Writer:
- Woody AllenDouglas McGrath
- Cast:
- John CusackDianne WiestJennifer TillyChazz PalminteriMary-Louise ParkerJack WardenRob ReinerTracey UllmanJoe ViterelliJim Broadbent
Bullets Over Broadway | Awards
Winner of Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Wiest), 1995 Academy Awards
Bullets Over Broadway | Reviews
97%59 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® Score
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The New York Times
Mr. Allen has drawn on autobiographical specifics in other films, but this may be the one in which he speaks most seriously from the heart.
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Rolling Stone
One of Allen's best and most revealing comedies, as much a moral meditation as it is dazzling fun.
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Roger Ebert
The movie is very funny and, in the way it follows its logic wherever it leads, surprisingly tough.
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