Bullets Over Broadway

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Love the Hard Way

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Rating: R

Running Time: 99 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: John Cusack, Jack Warden, Tony Sirico, Chazz Palminteri, Joe Viterelli, Jennifer Tilly, Rob Reiner, Mary-Louise Parker, Dianne Wiest, Harvey Fierstein

director: Woody Allen

Bullets Over Broadway

Set in the Roaring '20s, this comedy revolves around the mob's interaction with the show business world, primarily through the relationship between a playwright and a mobster.

December 8, 2000

Is Woody Allen wimping out? His detractors figure it this way: Allen's personal hell with Mia Farrow, a harsh press and a dwindling cult have driven the auteur of comic angst to dull the edge of his boldest work and slide into escapism. Among the damning evidence: last year's frivolous "Manbattan Murder Mystery" and ABC's upcoming "Don't Drink the Water" -- a retread of his joke-a-minute 1966 Broadway play about a Jewish caterer -- which represents, yikes, his first movie for television. And now…