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List Price: $14.98Price: $3.58 You Save: $11.40 (76%)Prices subject to change.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792852247
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792852249
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 16, 2002
Running Time: 111 minutes
Sales Rank: 22144
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: November 10, 1974
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Two-time OscarÂ(r) winner* Dustin Hoffman brings controversial 60s comedian Lenny Bruce tolife in this landmark (Variety) film that earned six OscarÂ(r) nominations,** including Best Picture. A jagged portrait of a man driven to mainlining honesty into the arteries of a hypocritical culture (Newsweek), Lenny is artful, imaginative (Los Angeles Times) and truly an extraordinary film (Saturday Review)! From his first gig as a nervous Catskillcomedian, it's obvious that Lenny Bruce is a force to be reckoned with. Armed with a shocking routine and a stripper as his muse (Valerie Perrine), Lenny turns comedyand Americaon its ear with his abrasive and often offensive humor. But life in the smoke-filled bars of the comedy circuit begins to take its toll. The drugs and arrests for his subject matter wear heavily on this maverick crusader but don't stop him from pushing the envelope right to his tragic and myth-making end. *1988: Actor, Rain Man; 1979: Actor, Kramer vs. Kramer **1974: Actor (Hoffman), Actress (Perrine), Director, Screenplay Adapted from Other Material, Cinematography
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Based loosely on the Broadway play, this film biography of late comedian Lenny Bruce captures his fiery brand of provocative humor while looking at his less-than-savory personal life. Dustin Hoffman earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Bruce, a seminal figure in stand-up comedy who broke boundaries of language and subject matter by questioning hypocrisy and telling it hilariously like he saw it. Director Bob Fosse, working with cinematographer Bruce Surtees, used black-and-white to capture the shadowy nightclub world in which Bruce rose and fell, bleakly depicting the eventual loss of his livelihood when he became a victim of governmental obscenity prosecution. Hoffman is ably supported by Valerie Perrine as Bruce's stripper wife, Honey, as much a victim as a lover for Bruce. --Marshall Fine
Average Rating: 
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If you want a bio, it's informative, and as I understand it, honest, as Lenny Bruce was not considered by many as great, but his passion for free speech is commendable, I think. As a movie, it focuses too much on the couple, and at times, I needed to step back and breath.
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I think this movie is great! I have purchased a Baker's dozen for my friends. I married Honey Bruce in 1984, here in Honolulu (husband number two). I first had the pleasure of meeting Honey in 1974 in San Anselmo, California. That summer, I was playing the bass guitar in a rock n' roll band for a fellow by the name of MiddleJohn. Middle and I were living in a ranch house directly across the street from where Honey was making her home. I was sleeping in my 1971 Dodge Sportsman camper Van which ... Read More
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Excellent condition, great price. Technology changes, great art doesn't. Bob Fosse and Dustin Hoffman for pennies -- videotape is better and cheaper than ever!
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For a film that's over 30 years old, this looks great. What helps matters is that it's black and white, which is easier to clean up in the post production process. Really though, it looks like it could have been filmed last year. Dustin Hoffman channels Lenny Bruce in a film directed by Bob Fosse. Yes it's a weird thing, there's no denying that. Bob Fosse, who was better known for his choreography (Chicago, Cabaret), turned to directing as another outlet of his creative forces. As for Hoffman, looking ... Read More
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Hoffman fully inhabits the tortured genius of Lenny Bruce, a performer whose scathingly funny routines seem fairly tame by today's standards, but which, in the proper, conforming fifties and early sixties, offended the establishment sufficiently to prompt multiple arrests for obscenity. Valerie Perrine delivers vivid support as Bruce's cheesy stripper wife, Honey, as much a victim of the times--and drugs--as Bruce himself. "Lenny" is a rare non-musical triumph for director Fosse, who was Oscar-nominated, ... Read More
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