Watch: Bullets Over Broadway 1994 123movies, Full Movie Online – 1920s Broadway. Playwright David Shayne considers himself an artist, and surrounds himself with like minded people, most struggling financially as they create art for themselves, not the masses. David, however, believes the failure of his first two plays was because he gave up creative control to other people who didn’t understand the material. As such, he wants to direct his just completed third play, “God of Our Fathers”, insider scuttlebutt being that it may very well make David the toast of Broadway. With David having no directing history, David’s regular producer, Julian Marx, can’t find any investors,… until a single investor who will finance the entire production comes onto the scene. He is Nick Valenti, a big time mobster, with the catch being that his dimwitted girlfriend, non-actress Olive Neal, get the lead role. A hesitant David and Julian, who are able to talk Nick into them giving Olive one of the two female supporting roles instead, go along with the scheme hoping that the three other actors hired will be able to make up for any deficiencies posed by Olive. What makes Olive’s situation worse for David is that Nick has placed a bodyguard named Cheech – a typical thug who kills if need be – on Olive, he a constant presence at the theater during rehearsals. David is unaware or mindfully ignorant of issues concerning the other actors. Helen Sinclair, who has the lead, is a diva of an actress, who hasn’t had a hit in years. Regardless, she is slyly manipulating David to make the role more glamorous befitting her real life persona than the frigid character he has written. Gossip is that Warner Purcell, the only male among the cast, has a roller coaster of a weight problem. Currently on a low, Warner tends to eat and eat and eat when when he gets stressed. And Eden Brent, a happy-go-lucky actress, has a constant companion in her pet chihuahua, Mr. Woofulls, whose presence is a constant thorn in Helen’s side. With one problem after another during rehearsals, one event seems to have the potential to turn the production around on a permanent upswing,… that is if David goes along with it, he resisting if only because it would mean that his artistic vision was wrong. Regardless, there is still the potential for something to go violently wrong with Nick solely looking out for Olive’s interest, and Cheech a constant presence, he seeing and hearing everything that is happening..
Plot: After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick’s girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of a psychiatrist—but not only is she a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist—she’s a dreadful actress. David puts up with the leading man who is a compulsive eater, the grand dame who wants her part jazzed up, and Olive’s interfering hitman/bodyguard—but, eventually he must decide whether art or life is more important.
Smart Tags: #reference_to_breast_feeding #timeframe_1930s #street_in_title #metafiction #actress #playwright #play #bodyguard #rehearsal #new_york_city #chihuahua #gangster #writing #bar #theater #shot_to_death #pearl_necklace #overweight_man #crime_boss #three_word_title #gunfight
123movies | FMmovies | Putlocker | GoMovies | SolarMovie | Soap2day
7.4/10 Votes: 39,373 | |
95% | RottenTomatoes | |
N/A | MetaCritic | |
N/A Votes: 482 Popularity: 10.18 | TMDB |
Woody Allen in fine form
New York, 1928. David Shayne is a playwright and his last two movies have bombed. He has a new play and wants to direct it himself. However, he is unable to find a financier for his play until Nick Valenti comes along. Slight problem – Valenti is a mobster, and he now insists that his talentless girlfriend, Olive Neal, get the lead role. Things are about to get very complicated.Written and directed by Woody Allen and here he is in fine form (as he was throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s). Clever and very funny. Biting humour, smart plot and snappy dialogue.
Great performances. John Cusack is solid in the lead role but it is the supporting cast who shine. Dianne Wiest got a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her efforts. Chaz Palminteri and Jennifer Tilly got Oscar nominations, for Best Supporting Actor and Actress, respectively.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 38 min (98 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Crime
Director Woody Allen
Writer Woody Allen, Douglas McGrath
Actors John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly
Country United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 22 wins & 30 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Stereo (Mono)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panaflex Cameras and Lenses by Panavision
Laboratory DuArt Film Laboratories Inc., New York, USA (color), Technicolor (prints)
Film Length 2,725 m (Finland)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm