BOB FOSSE - MORE SMOKE PLEASE: LENNY is not currently booked at any Toronto cinema. We last tracked it at Revue Cinema in August 2026. Set a free alert below and we'll email you the moment it's programmed again. Directed by Bob Fosse, released in 1974, drama, 111 minutes long.
The film jumps between various sections of Bruce's life, including scenes of when he was in his prime and the burned-out, strung-out performer who, in the twilight of his life, used his nightclub act to pour out his personal frustrations. We watch as up-and-coming Bruce courts his "Shiksa goddess", a stripper named Honey. With family responsibilities, Lenny is encouraged to do a "safe" act, but he cannot do it. Constantly in trouble for flouting obscenity laws, Lenny develops a near-messianic complex which fuels both his comedy genius and his talent for self-destruction. Worn out by a lifetime of tilting at Establishment windmills, Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose in 1966.
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