I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Blistering performances.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

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!

It isn't from the painful relationship between his girlfriend, or his addictions. It is from how I remembered this film when Andrew Dice Clay was being attacked for his portrayal in Ford Fairlane (which was an excellent comedy). I was young when this movie was made, and it takes place before I was born. So, I don't know if this movie was accurate. However, this is the irony. Bruce was supposed to be Anti-Establishment. He was lambasting a society that wanted to close its doors on taboos - such as sex, race relations, etc. We had won that war by the 1980s. Then, along came "political correctness". The Anti-Establishment became even worse than the Establishment of old. At least, younger people were already revolting against it by the 1960s. However, the same younger generation that won the 60s suddenly turned "clean". Bruce, may have not have had a wonderful personal life, but at least he was speaking his mind and heart, and not being shut out by the "political correctness" of the time. This is why this movie makes me so sad. It makes me think of the days, when there were painful realities, but people were more human, less perfectionistic, and could speak their minds. And by the late 80s, that World died with the birth of "political correctness". No longer could there be Lenny Bruce's - speaking their hearts and minds. In the old day, the "blue meanies" were the Hooverites. Now, they are the Neo Yuppies who have taken away whatever voice and freedom we used to have in this country. This movie was not great, but it was interesting. Hoffman can carry most roles, and he did a pretty good impersonation. He was a lovable and dislikeable person. He did bad things, but he had a heart, too. He was a person who was imperfect, but trying in many ways to speak his mind. It is too bad that nowadays these days are long gone. We no longer can tell the truth and be enraged. Someone now tells us that we are "unpolitically correct" for trying to speak the truth. That is why this movie is so sad.

Lenny is a great movie dealing with several social issues, shown from a celebrity perspective but they stand good from a common man's perspective. The timing to watch such movie could not have been better because recently only we lost the most popular human being off all times and I was comparing his….MJ's life to that of Lenny and they seemed quite similar especially the end. The movie also looked good probably because I did not how big of a personality this guy Lenny was (was written about in Time magazine n all) and my previous experience with such biographies hasn't been that great. The only safe bet I had was Dustin Hoffman and from the first scene he looked his usual best. The movie's style, of how Lenny derived his socio-comic material from his own experiences. The editing of the scenes where what was happening in his life, was being laughed upon in a subsequent scene by audience when Lenny put them in his own comical fashion. In the starting when he did that, I thought he was a shallow personality but on the other hand I think he was a strong personality who brought all those social issues to a bigger audience for people to learn from them. Also a lot of things he was accused of back in the days…most of them are a common thing today…so we can say he was ahead of time. Bottom line: everybody got problems…its just that we get to hear about celebrities' only