Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
- Starring:
- John Cusack, Jack Warden, (more)
- Director(s):
- Woody Allen
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
- Category:
- Comedy
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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
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 99 mins
Complete Cast:
- John Cusack - David Shayne
- Chazz Palminteri - Cheech
- Jennifer Tilly - Olive Neal
- Mary-Louise Parker - Ellen
- Harvey Fierstein - Sid Loomis
- Tracey Ullman - Eden Brent
- John Doumanian - Backstage Well-Wisher
- Edie Falco - Lorna
- Brian McConnachie - Mitch Sabine
- Tony Darrow - Aldo
- Frank Aquilino - Hood
- Margaret Sophie Stein - Lili
- Debi Mazar - Vi
- Gene Canfield - Waterfront Hood
- Annie Joe Edwards - Venus
- Charles Cragin - Rifkin
- Paul Herman - Maitre d'
- Peter Castellotti - Waterfront Hood
- Jack Warden - Julian Marx
- Joe Viterelli - Nick Valenti
- Dianne Wiest - Helen Sinclair
- Rob Reiner - Sheldon Flender
- Jim Broadbent - Warner Purcell
- John di Benedetto - Waterfront Hood
- Howard Erskine - Theatre Well-Wisher
- Stacey Nelkin - Rita
- Benay Venuta - Theatre Well-Wisher
- Lou Eppolito - Waterfront Hood
- Dayle Haddon - Backstage Well-Wisher
- Ken Roberts - Theatre Well-Wisher
- Victor Colicchio - Waterfront Hood
- Tony Sirico - Rocco
- Fran McGee - Movie Theatre Victim
- Peter McRobbie - Man at Theatre
- Tony Conforti - Waterfront Hood
- John Ventimiglia - Waterfront Hood
- Director(s):
- Woody Allen
- Writer(s):
- Douglas McGrath, Woody Allen
- Producer(s):
- Robert Greenhut
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Not For Children)
- Categories:
- Comedy
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- 1993 - Bullets Over Broadway - Hollywood Foreign Press Association - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
- 1994 - Bullets Over Broadway - Hollywood Foreign Press Association - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
- 1994 - Bullets Over Broadway - Independent Spirit Awards - Best Supporting Actor
- 1994 - Bullets Over Broadway - Independent Spirit Awards - Best Supporting Actress
- 1993 - Bullets Over Broadway - Los Angeles Film Critics Association - Best Supporting Actress
- 1994 - Bullets Over Broadway - National Society of Film Critics - Best Supporting Actress
- 1994 - Bullets Over Broadway - New York Film Critics Circle - Best Supporting Actress
- 1994 - Bullets Over Broadway - Screen Actors Guild - Best Supporting Actress
