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[[The Roaring Twenties|In the 1920s]], idealist playwright David Shayne ([[John Cusack]]) moves to New York City to produce a play. He and his girlfriend Ellen (Mary-Louise Parker) fit in well enough in the show business world and David finds a mentor in Sheldon Flender (Rob Reiner), a bohemian artist who says that artists can get away with things normal people can't [[True Art Is Incomprehensible|because artists live in their own moral universe]].

 

But the biggest problem is with the play itself. It is pretentious and badly written, so much so that Cheech starts making suggestions on how to improve it. David begrudgingly takes Cheech's writing advice and ends up having to decide whether art or life is more important.

* [[All Part of the Show]]: During the show's opening night on Broadway, {{spoiler|a pair of mobsters shoot and kill Cheech backstage. The audience thinks the gunshots were all part of the show. In fact, the show gets rave reviews because of the "symbolic" gunshots in the ending.}}

* [[Author Existence Failure]]: [[In-Universe]], [[It Makes Sense in Context]]

* [[Enforced Method Acting]]: Near the end.

* [[Genki Girl]]: Eden Brent is a giggly flapper.

* [[I'll Take Two Beers, Too!]]:

'''Helen''': Oh, you want one too? Three. }}

* [[Ironic Echo]]: "Don't speak. Don't speak. Don't speak." Doubles as a [[Freud Was Right]].

* [[Omniscient Morality License]]

* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Sid Loomis, played by Harvey Firestein.

* [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]: " {{spoiler|Olive}}, I just want you to know one thing: you're a ''horrible'' actress."

* [[Reality Subtext]]: The running theme of the film is that a ''true'' artist has their own moral code. This is probably a rebuke by Allen to those who decried his affair and marriage to Soon-Yi Previn.

** Warner Purcell keeps eating... and eating... and eating...

* [[Sassy Black Woman]] / [[Servile Snarker]]: Venus.

* [[Show Within a Show]]: We get to see a lot of the play in various states of development.

* [[Throw It In]]: Olive thinks you can do this in a play. She claims it's ad-libbing, but it's completely inappropriate.

* [[Triang Relations]]

* [[White Dwarf Starlet]]: Helen, though [[He Really Can Act|She Really Can Act]].

* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]: David Shayne is painfully naive at times when it comes to producing a play.

 

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