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| TriStar Pictures | Release Date: December 20, 1991 |
Starring:
Annette Bening, Bebe Neuwirth, Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould, Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi, Harvey Keitel, Joe Mantegna, Richard C. Sarafian, Warren Beatty, Wendy Phillips
Summary:
The story of how Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel started Las Vegas.
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Just when you thought gangster movies had peaked, here's Warren Beatty in Bugsy, a film so suave, outrageous, flamboyant, knowing and above all playful that you're liable to overlook the fact that it's more loaded with American resonances than any three pop culture courses you could sign up for. [20 Dec 1991, p.53]
Levinson was never one for narrative tightness. As with much of his previous work, Bugsy is a maze of episodes, a sprawling excuse for engaging human banter. Although the truth will inevitably catch up with Beatty -- especially concerning that expensive nightclub -- it's not entirely clear what the movie's about. But that's the kind of detail Beatty's Siegel wouldn't even worry about. Neither should you.
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What’s finally missing from Bugsy is the dirty, low-down kick of the crime genre — the quality that marked last year’s The Grifters, and that was there in The Godfather, too. Levinson would like to be bad, but his approach is reverent, ironic, tasteful. He’s made a gangster movie that, for all its lithe pleasures, enunciates too well.
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One wishes Beatty would stay out of the epic business, but in that poor man's defense, he's become too large, too much of an icon on the screen to do much else. Perhaps he's doomed to play cartoon characters as he did last time out in Dick Tracy. His Bugsy is not anything close to a fully realized character. Bening, as his starlet/moll, does a better job, but her role doesn't give her much to work with.
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Oct 10, 2021
A look at the glory days and subsequent downfall of mobster Bugsy Malone; one of the points in favor of the biopic is to avoid labeling it as hero or villain, as well as the period setting and the performance of Warren Beatty.
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Aug 29, 2018
A cast that includes Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould and Joe Mantegna and they were directed by a still quite solid Barry Levinson.
It's a pretty damn good mob film, bit overlong but it's worth the ride.
It's a pretty damn good mob film, bit overlong but it's worth the ride.
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