Bullets Over Broadway

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Bullets Over Broadway
Image:Bullets over Broadway movie poster.jpg
Directed by	Woody Allen
Produced by	Robert Greenhut
Written by	Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath
Starring	John Cusack Dianne Wiest Chazz Palminteri Jennifer Tilly Jack Warden Mary-Louise Parker Jim Broadbent Tracey Ullman Joe Viterelli
Cinematography	Carlo Di Palma
Distributed by	Miramax Films
Release date(s)	October 14, 1994
Running time	98 minutes
IMDb profile

Bullets Over Broadway is a 1994 film written by Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath and directed by Woody Allen.

[edit] Plot

In 1928, David Shayne (John Cusack) is an idealistic young playwright newly arrived on Broadway. In order to gain financing for his play, God of Our Fathers, he agrees to hire Olive Neal (Jennifer Tilly), the actress/girlfriend of a gangster. She is demanding and talentless, but her gangster escort Cheech (Chazz Palminteri) turns out to be a genius, who constantly comes up with excellent ideas for revising the play. As the players prepare for opening night, Shayne is soon in over his head claiming Cheech's rewrites as his own, cheating on his partner Ellen (Mary-Louise Parker) with the show's seductive, alcoholic leading lady Helen Sinclair (Dianne Wiest), and facing his leading man, a compulsive eater (Jim Broadbent), beginning an affair with Olive.

The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards including Allen and co-writer Douglas McGrath for original screenplay, Allen for director and Tilly and Palminteri for Supporting Actress and Actor respectively. Wiest won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance.

[edit] External links

• Bullets Over Broadway at the Internet Movie Database
• Where's Woody? in Boston Review: article discussing the Nietzschean influences in Bullets Over Broadway
• Who shot the seagull? Anton Chekhov's influence on Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway

v • d • e Films directed by Woody Allen

What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966) • Take the Money and Run (1969) • Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story (1971) • Bananas (1971) • Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972) • Sleeper (1973) • Love and Death (1975) • Annie Hall (1977) • Interiors (1978) • Manhattan (1979) • Stardust Memories (1980) • A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) • Zelig (1983) • Broadway Danny Rose (1984) • The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) • Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) • Radio Days (1987) • September (1987) • Another Woman (1988) • New York Stories (1989) • Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) • Alice (1990) • Shadows and Fog (1992) • Husbands and Wives (1992) • Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) • Bullets over Broadway (1994) • Don't Drink the Water (1994) • Mighty Aphrodite (1995) • Everyone Says I Love You (1996) • Deconstructing Harry (1997) • Celebrity (1998) • Sweet and Lowdown (1999) • Small Time Crooks (2000) • The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) • Hollywood Ending (2002) • Anything Else (2003) • Melinda and Melinda (2005) • Match Point (2005) • Scoop (2006) • Cassandra's Dream (2007) • Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)

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