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Bullets Over Broadway

Bullets over Broadway
Bullets over Broadway movie poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Woody Allen
Produced by
Written by
Starring
Cinematography Carlo DiPalma
Edited by Susan E. Morse
Distributed by Miramax Films
Release date
  • September 4, 1994 (1994-09-04) (Venice)
  • October 14, 1994 (1994-10-14) (United States)
Running time
98 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $20 million
Box office $13.4 million

Bullets over Broadway is a 1994 American criminal comedy film directed by Woody Allen, written by Allen and Douglas McGrath and starring an ensemble cast including John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Chazz Palminteri and Jennifer Tilly.

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 Best Supporting Actress for her performance, the second time Allen directed her to an Academy Award.

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.


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