Bullets Over Broadway

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Bullets Over Broadway
Bullets over Broadway movie poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Woody Allen
Written by
Produced by Robert Greenhut
Starring
Cinematography Carlo DiPalma
Edited by Susan E. Morse
Production
company
Sweetland Films
Distributed by Miramax Films
Release dates
  • September 4, 1994 (1994-09-04)(Venice)
  • October 14, 1994 (1994-10-14)(United States)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$20 million [1]
Box office$37.5 million [2] [3]

Bullets Over Broadway is a 1994 American black comedy crime 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. Set in 1920s New York, the film centers around a struggling playwright who is urged to cast the talentless girlfriend of a notorious mobster in his newest play in order to get it produced.

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The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Allen for Best Director, Allen and McGrath for Best Original Screenplay, Palminteri for Best Supporting Actor, and both Tilly and Wiest for Best Supporting Actress, with the latter winning for her performance, the second time Allen directed her to an Academy Award. Considered one of his best works, Bullets Over Broadway is the most recent film directed by Allen with a shared writing credit.

Plot

In 1928, David Shayne is an idealistic young playwright newly arrived on Broadway from Pittsburgh. Desperate to gain financing for his play, God of Our Fathers, he is convinced by producer Julian Marx to cast actress Olive Neal, the girlfriend of gangster Nick Valenti, in a minor role.

Compensating for his frustration with the demanding and talentless Olive, David is thrilled to cast alcoholic faded star Helen Sinclair in the lead role, along with the dieting British thespian Warner Purcell. Rehearsals are soon thrown into chaos when Olive shows up escorted by Cheech, a mob henchman, who insists on watching rehearsals.

Eventually Cheech starts giving notes on the script to David, who is initially angered by the intrusion but quickly realizes the ideas are excellent. Cheech, who barely learned to read before burning down his school, has a natural talent for playwriting, but is not interested in taking any credit. The cast members herald the revised script as genius, disparaging his initial draft as dull and pompous.

Buoyed by their imminent success, David and the actors succumb to their vices. His partner, Ellen, catches him cheating on her with Helen. Warner indulges in overeating and begins an affair with Olive, which he attempts to break off when Cheech threatens his life. Growing increasingly frustrated with Olive's poor acting, Cheech tries to have her fired from the production. After David reminds him he cannot get rid of Olive, Cheech murders her and dumps her body in a river.

Olive's murder is widely assumed to be part of an inter-gang conflict, but David immediately senses the truth and argues with Cheech. Regretting his mistakes, David is dismayed to learn that Ellen is leaving him for his hedonistic Marxist friend Sheldon Flender.

On opening night, Valenti accuses Cheech of Olive's murder, which he denies. Henchmen Rocco and Aldo chase Cheech backstage while the play is being performed, shooting him. With his dying words, Cheech gives David a new final line for the play. The play is a critical and commercial success, but David skips the after-party to confront Flender. He confesses his lack of talent and proposes marriage to Ellen, who accepts his newfound desire to leave high society and move back to Pittsburgh.

Cast

Soundtrack

Production

The film's locales include the duplex co-op on the 22nd floor of 5 Tudor City Place in Manhattan. [5]

The film's title may have been an homage to a lengthy sketch of the same title from the 1950s television show Caesar's Hour ; one of Allen's first jobs in television was writing for Sid Caesar specials after the initial run of the show. [6]

The film featured the last screen appearance of Benay Venuta. Allen cast her in a cameo role as a well-wishing wealthy theatre patron. [7] She died of lung cancer in September 1995.

Reception

Critical response

Bullets Over Broadway received a positive response from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 95% based on 60 reviews, with an average rating of 7.9/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "A gleefully entertaining backstage comedy, Bullets Over Broadway features some of Woody Allen's sharpest, most inspired late-period writing and direction." [8]

Janet Maslin of The New York Times described the film as "a bright, energetic, sometimes side-splitting comedy with vital matters on its mind, precisely the kind of sharp-edged farce [Allen] has always done best." [9] Todd McCarthy of Variety similarly called it "a backstage comedy bolstered by healthy shots of prohibition gangster melodrama and romantic entanglements" and wrote, "In its mixing of showbiz and gangsters, this is a nice companion piece to Allen's Broadway Danny Rose , and about as amusing." [10] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times praised, "Bullets Over Broadway shares a kinship with a more serious film by Allen, Crimes and Misdemeanors , in which a man committed murder and was able, somehow, to almost justify it. Now here is the comic side of the same coin. The movie is very funny and, in the way it follows its logic wherever it leads, surprisingly tough." [11]

The film grossed $13.4 million in the United States and Canada and $24.1 million internationally for a worldwide total of $37.5 million. [2] [3]

Awards and nominations

AwardCategoryNominee(s)ResultRef.
Academy Awards Best Director Woody Allen Nominated [12]
Best Supporting Actor Chazz Palminteri Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Jennifer Tilly Nominated
Dianne Wiest Won
Best Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath Nominated
Best Art Direction Art Direction: Santo Loquasto;
Set Decoration: Susan Bode
Nominated
Best Costume Design Jeffrey Kurland Nominated
American Comedy Awards Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion PictureChazz PalminteriNominated
Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion PictureJennifer TillyNominated
Tracey Ullman Nominated
Dianne WiestWon
Artios Awards Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film Casting – Comedy Juliet Taylor Won [13]
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards Best Supporting Actress Tracey Ullman3rd Place [14]
Dianne Wiest2nd Place
British Academy Film Awards Best Screenplay – Original Woody Allen and Douglas McGrathNominated [15]
British Comedy Awards Best Comedy FilmWon [16]
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards Best Supporting Actor Chazz PalminteriNominated [17]
Best Supporting Actress Dianne WiestWon
Chlotrudis Awards Best MovieNominated [18]
Best Supporting ActressDianne WiestWon
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards Best Supporting Actress Won
Golden Globe Awards Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Dianne WiestWon [19]
Guldbagge Awards Best Foreign Film Woody AllenNominated
Independent Spirit Awards Best Feature Nominated [20]
Best Supporting Male Chazz PalminteriWon
Best Supporting Female Dianne WiestWon
Best Screenplay Woody Allen and Douglas McGrathNominated
Kansas City Film Critics Circle AwardsBest Supporting ActressDianne WiestWon [21]
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Best Supporting Actress Won [22]
National Board of Review Awards Top Ten Films 4th Place [23]
National Society of Film Critics Awards Best Supporting Actress Dianne WiestWon [24]
New York Film Critics Circle Awards Best Supporting Actress Won [25]
Sant Jordi Awards Best Foreign ActorChazz Palminteri (also for A Bronx Tale and The Usual Suspects )Won
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Chazz PalminteriNominated [26]
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Dianne WiestWon
Society of Texas Film Critics Awards Best Supporting ActressWon
Southeastern Film Critics Association AwardsBest Supporting ActressWon [27]
Writers Guild of America Awards Best Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen Woody Allen and Douglas McGrathNominated [28]

Year-end lists

Stage musical

Allen adapted the film as a stage jukebox musical, titled Bullets Over Broadway the Musical . The musical is directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman, produced by Julian Schlossberg and Allen's younger sister Letty Aronson, with a score from the American songbook using songs from the 1920s and 1930s. [47] The new musical premiered on Broadway at the St. James Theatre on April 10, 2014. [48] A staged reading was held in June 2013. [49] The cast features Zach Braff as David Shayne, Brooks Ashmanskas, Betsy Wolfe, Lenny Wolpe, and Vincent Pastore. [50] Marin Mazzie stars as Helen Sinclair, [51] and Karen Ziemba appears as Eden Brent. [52] Musical supervisor Glen Kelly has adapted and written additional lyrics for songs including "Tain't Nobody's Bus'ness", "Running Wild", "Let's Misbehave", and "I Found a New Baby". [48] The musical closed on August 24, 2014, after 156 performances and 33 previews. [53]

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