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Bullets Over Broadway [1995]
from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
starring John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly, Chazz Palminteri, Mary-Louise Parker
directed by Woody Allen

Features:

• PAL

Editorial Review:

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, Amazon.com

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Very good
  First things first. If you don't like Allen's work you wont like this. However, if you like his humour you'll love this. He's done a great job in showing up luvies pretensions and self opinionated egos. It's basically a piss take at art and as usual Woody Allen does a brilliant job. Not hilarious, just ironically funny.

• A strange experiment
  My instinct is that without Woody Allen's name on it this would sink without a trace, despite its excellent cast. And though I find it compelling viewing and have seen it a number of times, and although it makes me laugh out loud and has genuine moments of suspense, all its potential seems to be frittered away. The performances are great but the script seems beneath the potential of the cast, considering the fact that Palminteri is the hero and Cusack the male lead, and both are engaged in the act of... more info

• just woody !!
  this is a perfect movie, one my favourites. it's nothing more than a conventional woody allen movie but it has a mysterious quality that raises it up to heaven. a well written script, a woody allen direction, great perfomances by fabulous actors, those are elements that made a good movie. and woody in "bullets over broadway" has brought them all together ! i' m sure that almost everyone would enjoy this movie. have fun, especially if you like woody allen.

• Yeah, but...
  Ok if you're looking for fast, knock-about neurotic humour and one-liners; if it's subtle, intelligent, witty, slow-burning Allen you're after, look elsewhere. Like the previous reviewer, it just didn't engage me.

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