Woody Allen backstage crime comedy set at the height of the Roaring Twenties. Stars John Cusack and Dianne Wiest.
David Shayne...
Woody Allen backstage crime comedy set at the height of the Roaring Twenties. Stars John Cusack and Dianne Wiest.
David Shayne (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).
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95 %60 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
83 %17,083 reviewsAudience score rating
"A backstage comedy bolstered by healthy shots of prohibition gangster melodrama and romantic entanglements."
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Variety
Variety"No! Don't speak! See it!"
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Time Out
Time Out"Mr. Allen has drawn on autobiographical specifics in other films, but this may be the one in which he speaks most seriously from the heart."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"One of Allen's best and most revealing comedies, as much a moral meditation as it is dazzling fun."
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone"The movie is very funny and, in the way it follows its logic wherever it leads, surprisingly tough."
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Roger Ebert
Roger EbertBullets Over Broadway | Details
Award winner- Winner of Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Wiest), 1995 Academy Awards
- Rating
- M, Low level coarse language
- Runtime
- 98
- Genre
- Comedy
- Country of origin
- USA
