Lenny
Summary:
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 h... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Dustin Hoffman - (Lenny Bruce)
Valerie Perrine - (Honey Bruce)
Jan Miner - (Sally Marr)
Stanley Beck - (Artie Silver)
Gary Morton - (Sherman Hart)
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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 injec... Continue >>
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