You won't be disappointed!

brilliant actors, brilliant editing

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

I never got to see Lenny Bruce perform. Apparently, he broke the mold when it came to political and social commentary. He was down and dirty with social mores. But under all that was a depressed fragile man, a drug user, an alcoholic. He had trouble relating to his audiences and yet they adored him. So he was willing to put it out there while he lived in darkness. Dustin Hoffmann's performance is without peer. He manages to get the edginess into his delivery and be that person. The black and white allows us to not be distracted by colors that would take away our sensations. We follow Lenny Bruce as he fights for sanity amid a world where he has trouble seeing the upside.

Black and white masterpiece, steered by a great actor we all love. Lenny is first rate story telling about the late and controversial Lenny Bruce. He wasn't your ordinary comic, and could pull out funny stuff from newspaper clippings, where you get your laugh's worth from his comedy routine, which shocks and saddens too. We see his rise to comedy stardom, where the drugs and booze ultimately led to a breakdown, and his mental stuff, and almost possible certainty of doing jail time, which he wasn't prepared to do, hence the last scene with his drug suicide, in the stark. Valerie Perrine, just as powerful, deserves high applause as Lenny's suffering stripper wife, where the movie flashes back and forth, through her eyes, as through her time with Lenny. Hoffman's performance is just magnetic, so genuinely believable, in a film which will go down as one of the classic greats, I'm eternally for having watched in my lifetime of movies.

The first time i've heard about Lenny Bruce, it was from my hero George Carlin and i must say right off the bat that i haven't heard or saw much material from Lenny before this film, (yeah i know, shame on me) but at least i didn't had any expectations whatsoever.Factual or not? Once again i couldn't care less, it was a great entertainment. If i want facts about an artist i'll read a biography or watch a documentary, i will certainly not document myself on somebody through Hollywood for obvious reasons, if you can't figure them out, get off my review right now...Great performances, great story, amazing cinematography and editing, i really loved that movie. The "interview style" approach was brilliant and the jazzy/black & white atmosphere was delightful. That one shot scene near the end is astonishing and very sad, that scene alone worth the movie.Censorship, obscenities, anti-conformism, power of words, drug abuse and freedom of speech could resume quite well this movie in my opinion; and it makes me realize that i can't _______ write whatever i _______ want (at least not here) even in 20 _______ 13 can you _______ believe that?!In one word: Entertaining....And ____ censorship!

I have a friend who strongly recommended I see "Lenny". Now, after seeing the film I understand why he suggested it--Lenny Bruce in this film sounded much like my friend! Both are huge proponents of the First Amendment (as am I) and both felt that words alone are harmless. So, for that I am thankful that I saw the film and now I can see where my friend got his strange sensibilities! As far as the film goes, I STILL feel quite ambivalent about it several hours after finishing it. While I liked the film technically and appreciate that the film does not whitewash the man, it's also a rather unpleasant film about a guy who I am not even sure I care for one way or the other. I appreciate his pushing the limits of free speech, I just didn't think he was funny--and having seen his HORRIBLE film he wrote and acted in during his early career ("Dance Hall Racket") didn't help! I much more appreciated his insights into society but his jokes left me pretty flat. BUT, this is not really the purpose of the film. Even if you don't think he was funny, it's an interesting portrait of a very self-destructive man as well as the times he lived in and it's rather unflinching in its portrayal.By the way, if you do see "Lenny", understand that even today it's a rather adult film--even over three decades later. There is a lot of nudity and the language is understandably rough. So, don't watch it with your mother-in-law or Father Jenkins!