Bullets Over Broadway |  | Director: Woody Allen
Actors: John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly, Chazz Palminteri, Mary-Louise Parker
Studio: Miramax
Category: DVD
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Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 9096
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D16789D
ISBN: 6305327068
UPC: 071795100190
EAN: 9786305327066
ASIN: 6305327068
Theatrical Release Date: January 18, 1995
Release Date: April 20, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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
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!
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 great transaction, terrible product January 7, 2010
bookworm (California, USA)
This is the worst copy of video I've ever ordered. Terrible resolution, like a boot-leg copy. I have bought inexpensive DVD and they were perfect, so I guess I expected the same. The delivery and transaction was prompt.
 Bullets Over Broadway October 4, 2009
Dinky debie (california)
A different kind of Woody Allen movie. John Cusack in the lead role. Chaz Palminteri is great as the struggling writer's(Cusack) 'adviser'.
A brilliant tapestry of humor on multiple levels! October 27, 2008
Peter A. White (Phoenix, AZ)
This is one of the finest of Woody Allen's films melding past and present expressions of humor and visual scenes with so many outstanding actors performing at their peak. This is a clever, clever film with passion for all sorts of comedy- wit, satire, parody, double-entendre, everthing but a pie fight and that would have probably fit in as a "duel" between Cusack and Reiner over his wife but the verbal bohemian musings played just fine and I lack the audacity to second guess this beautiful work. Only Rob Reiner seemed at all familiar in his performance with too many Michael (Meathead) Stivic riffs but even in this case it was as the role was written. Enough has been written about John Cusack's almost other-wordly channeling of Mr Allen and this admirer whole-heartedly agrees with all of the praise granted. I am getting too wordy here, give yourself a gift, watch this film and you will more than likely want it for your collection!
great i love this movie October 7, 2008
Karen S. Mccoy (cayucos, ca usa)
John Cusack was really great in this. Very great classic movie. I loved it. they were awesome.
 A Wonderal Melodram with two main twists April 28, 2008
Paul Papadopoulos (Athens Greece)
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 rent it in DVD form where at least when stuck one can switch on English sub-titles, the Greek subtitles translation on my tape were so poor they didn't help.
The humour in the lines must not be missed because they are what have distinguished this movie from many other so-called comedies. The cinematography and casting is good, actually excellent. As well as the period setting and costumes which really make you believe you are in a New York of the 1930s or late 1920s. I still think it would have been even better as a stage production rather than a movie. If I were a stage producer I would use the full space of a theatre so that any actor playing Cheech would actually be sitting in the back row behind the audience. I give this film a good rating because it is so thoroughly entertaining, after all for me that is mainly what watching movies is all about.
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