Dustin Hoffman brings conroversial '60s comedian Lenny Bruce to life in this landmark film.
A jagged portrait of a man driven to mainlining honest into the arteries of a hypocrtical cultrue, Lenny is artful, imaganative and truly an extraordionary film.
From his first gig as a nervous Castskills comedian, it's obvious that Lenny Bruce is a force to be reckoned with. Armed with a shocking routine and a stripper as his muse ( Valerie Perrine ), Lenny turns comedy-and America- on it's ear with his abrassive and often offencive humor.
But life in the somke-filled bars of the comedy circuite begins to take it's toll. The drugs and arrests for his subject matter wear heavily on this maverick sursader...but don't stop him from going to extreems right to his tragic and myth-making end.

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