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Why this pick
Shared genres: Drama.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1974 1h 51m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Lenny
Drama
CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film jumps between various sections of Bruce's life, including scenes of when he was in his prime and the burned-out, strung-out performer who, in the twilight of his life, used his nightclub act to pour out his personal frustrations. We watch as up-and-coming Bruce courts his "Shiksa goddess", a stripper named Honey. With family responsibilities, Lenny is encouraged to do a "safe" act, but he cannot do it. Constantly in trouble for flouting obscenity laws, Lenny develops a near-messianic complex which fuels both his comedy genius and his talent for self-destruction. Worn out by a lifetime of tilting at Establishment windmills, Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose in 1966.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Dustin Hoffman
Lenny Bruce
Jan Miner
Sally Marr
Stanley Beck
Artie Silver
Guy Rennie
Jack Goldstein
Ted Sorel
New York Attorney
Monroe Myers
Hawaiin Judge
John DiSanti
John Santi
Phil Philbin
New York Plainclothesman