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Bullets Over Broadway

Bullets Over Broadway

Directed by	Woody Allen
Produced by	Robert Greenhut
Written by	Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath
Starring	Jim Broadbent John Cusack Harvey Fierstein Chazz Palminteri Mary-Louise Parker Rob Reiner Jennifer Tilly Tracey Ullman Joe Viterelli Jack Warden Dianne Weist
Cinematography	Carlo Di Palma
Editing by	Susan E. Morse
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.

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.

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

1960s	What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966) · Take the Money and Run (1969)

1970s	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)

1980s	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)

1990s	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)

2000s	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) · Whatever Works (2009)

Categories:: 1994 films; Miramax films; Films set in the 1920s; Films featuring a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award winning performance; Films featuring a Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe winning performance; Films directed by Woody Allen; Films set in New York City; American films; English-language films; Satirical films; 1990s comedy films; Mafia comedies

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