Home
Showtimes & Tickets
Top Box Office
Trailers & More
In Theaters
Coming Soon
New on DVD
Critics' Reviews
Photos
News
Blog
Superfans
Overview
Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Critics' Reviews
User Reviews
Trailers &
Clips
Photos
News
Similar Movies
Showtimes &
Tickets
Awards &
Nominations
On DVD

Lenny

:

Overview
Lenny
Critics' Rating:
read review
Avg. User Rating:
4 ratings
Your Rating:
write a review
R,1hr 51min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1974
Director:
Bob Fosse
Distributor:
MGM
Starring:
Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner  ...more
Synopsis: Adapted by Julian Barry from his own Broadway play, Lenny manages to be both brutally frank and highly romanticized in detailing the short life and career of influential, controversial stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce. The chronology hops, skips and jumps between Lenny (Dustin Hoffman) in his prime and the burned-out, strung-out performer who, in the twilight of his life, used his nightclub act to pour out his personal frustrations at great, boring length. We watch as up-and-coming comic Bruce courts ... Full Synopsis
Critics' Reviews
View Full Reviews
Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
His first non-musical film, Bob Fosse's biopic Lenny (1974) confirmed the breadth of the former hoofer's -- and his star Dustin Hoffman's -- protean talents. Detailing socially conscious pottymouth comic Lenny Bruce's trailblazing rise and self-immolating fall in a series of flashbacks, Fosse and screenwriter Julian Barry inject grim drama into an unsentimental portrait of the artist as a highly flawed ... Full Review
Featured Cast
View More Cast & Crew
Dustin Hoffman
Lenny Bruce
Valerie Perrine
Honey Bruce
Jan Miner
Sally Marr
Stanley Beck
Artie Silver
advertisement


Privacy
Legal
Advertise
RSS
Site map
Feedback
Help
|
© 2009 Microsoft