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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305327066
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305327068
Label: Miramax
Manufacturer: Miramax
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 20, 1999
Running Time: 99 minutes
Sales Rank: 13932
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: January 18, 1995
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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
Customer Reviews
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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 playwright's ambitions. The beauty of the whole thing is mostly in the lines. They are delivered in the machine-gun staccato style of the old Marx brothers movies and 1930s comedies such as My Man Godfrey. This might pose difficulties for anyone viewing the movie at the cinema, particularly those unfamiliar with heavy New York accents (I personally find them as challenging as the Scottish-English spoken in Glasgow). I taped the movie from a recent local TV airing, fortunately from a channel that doesn't interrupt with too many commercials, but I think the best idea is to buy or ... 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 as does a brilliant performance by Diane Wiest doing a fantastic send up of Gloria Swanson as the has-been actress searching for a comeback in Billy Wilder's classic Hollywood Boulevard. This one is definitely the five stars, with no hype needed. See it.
Rating:  - Filmed in 1994 Released in 1995 IN MONAURAL?????
Miramax and Woody Allen did a big dis-service to everyone who bought a ticket or a Laser Disc or a DVD of this film by not filming or releasing it in STEREO sound.
I realize some of the music featured in the period of the movie was not recorded in STEREO, however for the rest of the film, and the fact that it was filmed in 1994, and major films from the 50's on have been filmed in STEREO, not recording, or releasing this one in STEREO is a big injustice.
How about another release, you could call it "Special Edition" or "Ultimate Edition", where you provide 5.1 STEREO sound, like many other movie releases have done with movies previously released in monaural or just 2.0 STEREO?
Woody......are you listening?????
Miramax....are you listening?????
Think of the extra money you could rake in with only enhancing the sound!
Rating:  - poor quality
the stops and skips throughout, especially during the most important parts of the movie. very disappointed.
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