Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 04/20/1999
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: 1
Run Time: 99 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Miramax
Bullets Over Broadway is a
Woody Allen romp that, as the title suggests, combines gangsters with show business at the height of the Roaring Twenties. David Shayne (
John Cusack) is a straight-arrow playwright who plans to stand firm against compromising his work, but quickly abandons that stance when his producer (
Jack Warden) finds a backer to mount his show on Broadway. There's just one catch, however: the backer is a mobster (
Joe Viterelli) who sees Shayne's play as a vehicle for his dizzy, talent-free girlfriend, Olive (
Jennifer Tilly). Shayne also has to deal with the demands of veteran theatre diva Helen Sinclair (
Dianne Wiest) and is shocked to discover that Olive's hitman bodyguard, Cheech (
Chazz Palminteri), is probably a better playwright than he is, as he secretly revises Shayne's work when he sits in on rehearsals.
~ Don Kaye, All Movie Guide
;)
