Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
91%RT Audience Score: 83%
Awards & Nominations: NA
Stylish, exciting, and fueled by a killer soundtrack, Baby Driver hits the road and it’s gone — proving fast-paced action movies can be smartly written without sacrificing thrills.
Baby Driver is like a high-speed car chase that never slows down. The action is heart-pumping, the music is toe-tapping, and the characters are a blast to watch. Sure, the plot may not be the most original, but who cares when you’re having this much fun? It’s the kind of movie that makes you want to jump in a car and hit the gas pedal. Just make sure you have a killer soundtrack ready to go.
Production Company(ies)
La Parti Productions, Les Armateurs Maybe Movies
Distributor
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Release Type
Theatrical
Filming Location(s)
Belasco Theater – 111 West 44th Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
MPAA / Certificate
Rated R for some language
Year of Release
1995
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby
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Aspect ratio:1.85 : 1
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Runtime:1h 53m
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Language(s):English
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Jun 28, 2017 Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 26, 2017
Genre(s)
Action
Keyword(s)
starring Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Lily James, Jon Bernthal, Jon Hamm, Jamie Foxx, Eiza González, Flea, Lanny Joon, CJ Jones, Sky Ferreira, Paul Williams, Big Boi, Killer Mike, Hal Whiteside, Brigitte Kali Canales, Hudson Meek, Brogan Hall, Christopher Beanland, Patrick R Walker, Jeff Chase, Andy McDermott, Ben VanderMey, Erica Frene, David Conk, Lance Palmer, Keith Hudson, Ronald Joe Vasquez, Shellita Boxie, Danny Le Boyer, Marshall Choka, R Marcos Taylor, Allison King, Morse Diggs, Sky Elobar, Ryan Newton, Troy Faruk, Duke Jackson, Morgan Brown, Lily Rabe, Micah Howard, David Goldsmith, directed by Edgar Wright, written by Edgar Wright, produced by Nira Park, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, action, crime, thriller, box office success, $107.8M gross in the USA, R-rated, reviewed by Kambole Campbell, Kristen Lopez, Adam Nayman, K Austin Collins, Paul Byrnes, David Stratton, Brian Eggert, Cory Woodroof, Drew Dietsch, Kip Mooney, Matt Brunson, starring Ansel Elgort as Baby, Kevin Spacey as Doc, Lily James as Debora, Jon Bernthal as Griff, Jon Hamm as Buddy, Jamie Foxx as Bats
Worldwide gross: $13,383,747
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $26,317,263
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,601
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 2,869,931
US/Canada gross: $13,383,747
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $26,317,263
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,315
US/Canada opening weekend: $86,072
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $169,249
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,726
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $20,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $39,327,197
Production budget ranking: 973
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $21,177,696
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): -$34,187,630
ROI to date (est.): -57%
ROI ranking: 1,726
Kevin Spacey – Doc
Lily James – Debora
Jon Bernthal – Griff
Jon Hamm – Buddy
Jamie Foxx – Bats
Director – Edgar Wright
Producer – Nira Park, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner
Writer – Edgar Wright
Director(s)
Edgar Wright
Writer(s)
Edgar Wright
Producer(s)
Nira Park, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
NA
Academy Awards
Oscar Nominees, Oscar Winners
All Critics (398) | Top Critics (75) | Fresh (367) | Rotten (31)
It’s thrilling filmmaking, a total blast, and rarely misses a beat.
August 25, 2018 | Rating: 4/5
Kambole Campbell
One Room With A View
TOP CRITIC
Wright’s ensemble cast has great comedic timing that, coupled with the percussive score and smooth action setpieces, will you ready to peel out of the local theater.
November 20, 2017
Kristen Lopez
Culturess
TOP CRITIC
Baby Driver is so poorly written on levels of plot, characterization and (especially) dialogue that Wright’s typically first-rate craftsmanship fails to save it-and, in context, even becomes its own source of annoyance.
August 30, 2017
Adam Nayman
Cineaste Magazine
TOP CRITIC
The joy of Baby Driver is that, though you’ve seen versions of this story before, many times over, you’ve never seen it done quite like this.
August 9, 2017
K. Austin Collins
The Ringer
TOP CRITIC
It’s all bolted together like clockwork, an assemblage of elements designed to arouse and engage an audience that needs a reason to stop looking at their phones.
July 20, 2017 | Rating: 3.5/5
Paul Byrnes
Sydney Morning Herald
TOP CRITIC
The influences are there, but Wright builds on and subverts them in his hugely entertaining movie, one of the most satisfying films of its type to emerge in quite a while.
July 14, 2017 | Rating: 4/5
David Stratton
The Australian
TOP CRITIC
Baby Driver’s comparatively small, handmade quality serves it well, making this kinetic piece of entertainment feel less like an anonymous studio tentpole than a personal labor of love.
March 23, 2022 | Rating: 3/4
Brian Eggert
Deep Focus Review
The characters, the action, the music, the direction, the editing… everything here is baked with love like a batch of grandma’s cookies. Baby Driver is the reason we go to the movies.
February 11, 2022
Cory Woodroof
Curnblog
Fast-paced story, heart-pounding action, swoonworthy romance, colorful characters, laughs, gasps, tears, and triumph.
December 29, 2021 | Rating: 5/5
Drew Dietsch
FANDOM
I have a hard time believing I’ll see another movie this year as consistently entertaining and jaw-dropping.
August 26, 2021 | Rating: A-
Kip Mooney
College Movie Review
Between the character dynamics, the vehicular stuntwork, and the carefully chosen soundtrack, Baby Driver clicks on all cylinders — at least until it hits the homestretch.
August 16, 2021 | Rating: 3/4
Matt Brunson
Film Frenzy
Everything outward lurches and spins if the baby’s not running proper, and I smelled me a lemon.
July 2, 2021
Jason Adams
My New Plaid Pants…
Plot
1920s Broadway. Playwright David Shayne considers himself an artist, and surrounds himself with like minded people, most struggling financially as they create art for themselves, not the masses. David, however, believes the failure of his first two plays was because he gave up creative control to other people who didn’t understand the material. As such, he wants to direct his just completed third play, “God of Our Fathers”, insider scuttlebutt being that it may very well make David the toast of Broadway. With David having no directing history, David’s regular producer, Julian Marx, can’t find any investors,… until a single investor who will finance the entire production comes onto the scene. He is Nick Valenti, a big time mobster, with the catch being that his dimwitted girlfriend, non-actress Olive Neal, get the lead role. A hesitant David and Julian, who are able to talk Nick into them giving Olive one of the two female supporting roles instead, go along with the scheme hoping that the three other actors hired will be able to make up for any deficiencies posed by Olive. What makes Olive’s situation worse for David is that Nick has placed a bodyguard named Cheech – a typical thug who kills if need be – on Olive, he a constant presence at the theater during rehearsals. David is unaware or mindfully ignorant of issues concerning the other actors. Helen Sinclair, who has the lead, is a diva of an actress, who hasn’t had a hit in years. Regardless, she is slyly manipulating David to make the role more glamorous befitting her real life persona than the frigid character he has written. Gossip is that Warner Purcell, the only male among the cast, has a roller coaster of a weight problem. Currently on a low, Warner tends to eat and eat and eat when when he gets stressed. And Eden Brent, a happy-go-lucky actress, has a constant companion in her pet chihuahua, Mr. Woofulls, whose presence is a constant thorn in Helen’s side. With one problem after another during rehearsals, one event seems to have the potential to turn the production around on a permanent upswing,… that is if David goes along with it, he resisting if only because it would mean that his artistic vision was wrong. Regardless, there is still the potential for something to go violently wrong with Nick solely looking out for Olive’s interest, and Cheech a constant presence, he seeing and hearing everything that is happening.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
Jamie Foxx’s character, Bats, was originally written as a white man, but was changed to a black character after Foxx expressed interest in the role.
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