Description: 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!
Amazon.com: 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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Rating: - A brilliant tapestry of humor on multiple levels!
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 ... Read More
Rating: - great i love this movie
John Cusack was really great in this. Very great classic movie. I loved it. they were awesome.
Rating: - A Wonderal Melodram with two main twists
In general I have not liked any movie with Woody Allen in it but I do love his humorous lines. This movie is good in that Woody does not appear in it in person but he is there in spirit (for all that he is also an excellent saxophonist and film maker). So although it would not pass as a really great film Bullets over Broadway is, nonetheless, a highly entertaining and memorable melodrama, American humour at its best, replete with characters who are seemingly funny without knowing it. As in Shakespeare's dramas even the minor characters like the mafia boss's maid, get to utter wonderfully witty comments. Thankfully the only truly annoying character, I shan't tell you which one, gets whacked.
I wish some Amazon reviewers would not spoil it for others by revealing the two twists in this otherwise simple tale where the mafia is mixed up with Broadway theatre via a struggling and unsuccessful ... Read More
Rating: - The Great White Way
Apparently, as long as it involves a New York City scenario Woody Allen is more than happy to take a run at a plot that involves that locale in some way. Here it is the Great White Way- Broadway during its heyday in the Prohibition Era 1920's that gets his attention (Broadway was also the subject of his classic Broadway Danny Rose). What really makes this plot line very, very funny and makes the film work however is the plot twist of interspersing semi-serious production of a play with nefarious (and deadly) gangster activity.
Here a struggling (weren't they all and presumably still are) Greenwich Village writer has a thoughtful dramatic play in search of a backer and as the story progresses a gangster `ghostwriter'. Presto, up comes one backer-with a problem- his `doll' wants in on the play and (on the side) he needs to stay one or two steps ahead of his gangster rivals. These antics drive the play nicely ... Read More
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- A brilliant tapestry of humor on multiple levels!
- A Wonderal Melodram with two main twists
