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| Bullets Over Broadway [1995] | ![Bullets Over Broadway [1995]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51V0TB6CW1L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Woody Allen
Actors: John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly, Chazz Palminteri, Mary-louise Parker
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (9 reviews)
Sales Rank: 6026
Format: Pal
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: DVD
Running Time: 95 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5017188884297
ASIN: B00005U1XQ
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Theatrical Release Date: January 18, 1995
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Amazon.co.uk Review
One of Woody Allen's best films of the 90s, IBullets Over Broadway/I 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 IAmadeus/I) 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. --ITom Keogh, Amazon.com/I
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 Very good June 25, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 January 16, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
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 scriptwriting. This may well be part of the ironic double back that Allen employs, but it seems like a bold stategy, underdeveloped. The film is about writers and actors upstaging each other as they put on a Broadway play, and Cusack and Palminteri seem to be playing that for real. It is gripping as an idea if, like me you are into studying art, but it never suspends the disbelief. I am always aware while watching that I am watching a Woody Allen movie and my enjoyment of it is spotting the allusions and the technical setting up of the cinematic effects. One principal irony is that the "plot" of this "comedy" is centered on cold and brutal murderers getting involved in artistic creativity. One of the most cringe-making aspect is when Allen seems to be responding to the criticism that he never writes for black actors, but does so ironically. The only black actress plays a servant, a large sassy lady got up in a revolting uniform, and when Cusack thanks her for serving him his drink it doesn't appear that he is acting at that moment but that he is thanking her for having to play that demeaning role in that stereotypical way. The veneer falls away - but because the cast is so renowned and genuinely brilliant it has the quality of watching a real life disaster and admiring the work of the professional lifesavers. And that is one of the reasons I keep watching it. What is good about the film, and which would appeal to film students, is the way Allen plays with the notion of suspension of disbelief and plays with the audience reception: at times there is a documentary quality to it as if it is a series of demonstrations of the different effects that a filmmaker can obtain. But there is no emotional denoument and no basic story. One of the major problems is the 1920s setting in which Allen sets 1990s language and ideas, it's neither a period piece, nor contemporary (again I think this is a deliberate ploy by Allen to create a particular effect). I wouldn't recommend it for any one who isn't interested in how films work.
just woody !! July 12, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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... December 29, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
Okay but a bit disappointing October 4, 2005
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Maybe I had too high expectations of this movie, I seemed to remember it getting good reviews on it's theatre release and it had a strong cast... However, it did not really engage me. The performances were very good but I felt maybe the film was trying to be too clever, over selling its point. Still it was watchable.
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