Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
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Critic Consensus: A gleefully entertaining backstage comedy, Bullets Over Broadway features some of Woody Allen's sharpest, most inspired late-period writing and direction.
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Cast
as David Shayne
as Helen Sinclair
as Cheech
as Olive Neal
as Nick Valenti
as Eden Brent
as Warner Purcell
as Julian Marx
as Ellen
as Sheldon Flender
as Sid Loomis
as Venus
as Rocco
as Sal
as Rita
as Waterfront Hood
as Waterfront Hood
as Vi
as Sheldon Flender
as Waterfront Hood
as Lorna
as Waterfront Hood
as Aldo
as Understudy
as Waterfront Hood
as Waterfront Hood
as Waterfront Hood
as Maitre d'
as Lili
as Rifkin
as Movie Theatre Victim
as Mitch Sabine
as Hood
as Backstage Well-Wisher
as Backstage Well-Wisher
as Theatre Well-Wisher
as Theatre Well-Wisher
as Theatre Well-Wisher
as Man at Theatre
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Critic Reviews for Bullets Over Broadway
All Critics (58) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (56) | Rotten (2) | DVD (1)
The joy of this bouncy, brainy Allen outing is how effortlessly he meshes his serious, clearly personal conundrums with the giddy formulas of backstage farce.
The performances, however, are very enjoyable, with first honors going to Chazz Palminteri and Dianne Wiest.
A backstage comedy bolstered by healthy shots of prohibition gangster melodrama and romantic entanglements.
No! Don't speak! See it!
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.
If not bowled over, we're at least won over.
Audience Reviews for Bullets Over Broadway
One of the top 5 of Allen's extensive repertoire, a gem that's sparkle leaves one feeling smarter and more erudite, rides the old show within a show conceit. And while loaded with excellent performances, Cusack, as Allen's surrogate, really shines simply for not aping Allen's shade as so many have done. Repeat viewings are definitely in order.
Super Reviewer
"Let's say there was a burning building and you could rush in and you could save only one thing: either the last known copy of Shakespeare's plays or some anonymous human being. What would you do?" In 1920s New York, a struggling playwright is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend in his latest drama in order to get it produced.
Super Reviewer
Woody's first indie venture outside of studio affiliations just so happens to be his best film of the 90s.
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Bullets Over Broadway Quotes
| Ellen: | I could love a man if he's not a real artist. But I couldn't love an artist if he's not a real man. |
| David Shayne: | I'll have a double anything. |
| Sheldon Flender: | Guilt is petit-bourgeois crap. An artist creates his own moral universe. |
| Helen Sinclair: | No, no, don't speak. Don't speak. Please don't speak. Please don't speak. No. No. No. Go. Go, gentle Scorpio, go. Your Pisces wishes you every happy return. |
| David Shayne: | Just one... |
| Helen Sinclair: | Don't speak. |