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Lenny is a 1974 American biographical drama film about the comedian Lenny Bruce, starring Dustin Hoffman and directed by Bob Fosse. The screenplay by Julian Barry is based on his play of the same name.
Feb 7, 1975 · Lenny: Directed by Bob Fosse. With Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner, Stanley Beck. The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establishment as too obscene for the public.
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- Biography, Drama
- Bob Fosse
- 1975-02-07
Lenny. Lenny Bruce, who died in 1966, would no doubt have had a lot to say about such events as the 1968 Democratic convention, Vietnam, Watergate, AIDS, Reagan and Clinton. He is remembered as a sort of liberating martyr, a prophet of the morass we were all heading for.
Controversial comedian Lenny Bruce (Dustin Hoffman) begins his career telling bad jokes to bored audiences in the 1950s, but can't repress his desire to unleash edgier material.
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- Bob Fosse
- R
- Dustin Hoffman
In the late 1950s, Honey, an emotional wreck from loneliness and drugs, calls Lenny collect from Hawaii, where she has been arrested for possession of marijuana. In a 1960s performance, Lenny explains that the problem is that we live in a "happy ending" culture instead of a "what is" culture.
BAFTA FILM AWARD® winner Lenny Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man) magnificently captures the complexities and contradictions of the legendary comedian Lenny Bruce's mercurial character.
Biography of controversial and legendary stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce: His beginnings in the Catskills, his legal battles from challenging obscenity laws with his act and his ultimate self-destruction. Here is the Dell novelization of Lenny (1974) by Valerie Kohler Smith.
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