Bullets over Broadway

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

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 actressgirlfriend 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 Cheechs rewrites as his own, cheating on his partner Ellen MaryLouise Parker with the shows 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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