Bullets Over Broadway

Of all the Woody Allen films that I have seen (not that many, I confess) this movie and "Everyone says 'I Love You'" are the ones that I have enjoyed the most. "Bullets Over Broadway" is a very funny, clever,... Read more at imdb.com

These last two words were what SHOULD have been added to the last line of the film to make this excellent movie even better. John Cusack, in one of his better roles, plays an aspiring playwright during the 1920s, and... Read more at imdb.com

In 1920's New York a young author, David, manages to get his play off the ground with funding from mobster Valenti. The money allows David to get actors of the caliber of Helen Sinclair and Warner Purcell, however there's a... Read more at imdb.com

There was period in the early '90s where Chazz Palminteri was on a roll.. He emerged as a "name" actor and was really entertaining and even likable as a killer, as in "A Bronx Tale." This movie, "Bullets Over Broadway,"... Read more at imdb.com

Now this is something sort of rare, though not really: Woody Allen mixing satire and drama, and the satire actually even more convincing than the drama. The opposite was in a more serious affair, Crimes and Misdemeanors, where art and... Read more at imdb.com

Set in 1920's New York City, "Bullets over Broadway" (1994) tells the story of a young playwright David Shayne who tries to produce his first play. He "stands on the brink of greatness. The world will open to him like... Read more at imdb.com

Sadly, I've been let down by most of Woody Allen's recent comedies. So it was most rewarding indeed to see the Woodman back again true to form (after a lengthy drought) with 1994's Bullets Over Broadway." Fun, foamy, and clever,... Read more at imdb.com

Woody Allen had the inspired idea to let another actor played what would have been a tailor-made he wrote for himself. As a director, Mr. Allen has always done well. Of course, there are exceptions, but in "Bullets over Broadway"... Read more at imdb.com

This film is typical of Woody Allen's brilliance. He creates the scene about 1920's New York theater scene with scene stealer Dianne Weist who wins her second academy award again with Woody Allen plays a theater dame with a grandiose presence... Read more at imdb.com

A Woody Allen written and directed film that does not include him in a single frame. It may seem strange, but it's true. Allen's "Bullets Over Broadway" deals with a struggling stage writer (John Cusack) who is so desperate to... Read more at imdb.com

Probably the most interesting performance in the film is Chazz Palminteri as a gangster, hit-man, originally sent to watch over Tilly Jennifer Tilly, as an annoying mob moll, assigned to a part clearly meant for someone better. ... Full Review

Bullets Over Broadway really is funny, but not quite at the side-splitting level. Against this colourful background the real cast work beautifully together, timing the comedy well and making Bullets Over Broadway come alive. ... Full Review

If you thought Woody Allen had become complacent when making films recently, Bullets Over Broadway will prove you wrong. Helen Sinclair easily has all the best lines in a consistently funny script that is full of memorable quotable lines. ... Full Review

Overall, Bullets Over Broadway isnt the best film produced by Woody Allen, but its definitely the strongest piece he released in the Nineties. Allen creates a fun screwball comedy in which the actors ham up a storm, but they do so in a wonderfully engaging and delightful manner. ... Full Review

The movie is very funny and, in the way it follows its logic wherever it leads, surprisingly tough. Only gradually do we realize that the only artist in "Bullets Over Broadway" who takes art really seriously is Cheech, the bodyguard. ... Full Review

John Cusack takes the Woody role in Allens 20s-set comedy about the struggle of a tortured young playwright to get his work produced. Jennifer Tilly is excruciatingly annoying as the mob moll he must cast to get funding, but thats... ... Full Article

"An artist creates his own moral universe," says the serious playwright-director played by John Cusack in Woody Allen's intensely personal and very funny new farce. ... Full Article

John Cusack ....David Shayne Jack Warden ....Julian Marx Tony Sirico ....Rocco Chazz Palminteri ....Cheech Rob Reiner ....Sheldon Flender Jennifer Tilly .... ... Full Article