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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 ...more
MPAA Rating: R | Year: 1974 | Running Time: 111 minutes
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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 man. Along with re-staging pieces of the straight-talking routines that made Bruce famous, ...more
- Dustin Hoffman - Lenny Bruce
- Valerie Perrine - Honey Bruce
- Jan Miner - Sally Marr
- Stanley Beck - Artie Silver
- Gary Morton - Sherman Hart
- George de Witt - Comic
- Phil Philbin - New York Cop
- Lee Sandman - Judge
- Glenn Wilder
- Susan Malnick - Kitty Bruce at Age 11
- Allison Goldstein - Kitty at Age 1
- Bridghid Glass - Kitty at Age 2
- Martin Begley - San Francisco Judge
- John DiSanti - John Santi
- Bob Fosse - Director
- David V. Picker - Executive Producer
- Robert Greenhut - Producer
- Marvin Worth - Producer
- Julian Barry - Screenwriter
- Albert Wolsky - Costume Designer
- Ted Zachary - First Assistant Director
- Douglas Green - First Assistant Director
- Alan Heim - Editor
- Ralph Burns - Composer (Music Score)
- Ralph Burns - Musical Direction/Supervision
- Roland "Ozzie" Smith - Camera Operator
- Joel Schiller - Production Designer
- Bruce Surtees - Cinematographer
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