Bugsy Malone

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Bugsy Malone

G

1976

1h 33m

Musical

Comedy

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Fat Sam (John Cassisi), Bugsy (Scott Baio) and Tallulah (Jodie Foster) are kids playing adults in Roaring '20s New York.

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Critics Consensus

Delightfully bizarre, Bugsy Malone harnesses immense charm from its cast of child actors playing wise guys with precocious pluck.

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Pauline Kael

The New Yorker

Dec 2, 2023

Bugsy Malone is nothing but its godawful idea.

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Mark Monahan

Daily Telegraph (UK)

Apr 18, 2014

Parker's script is as sharp as a wiseguy's suit, his attention to period and genre detail a constant joy, and he coaxes scarily poised performances from his young performers.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Dec 30, 2006

3/5

It's boisterous and good-natured, with catchy songs, and always sublimely unaware of its own strangeness.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

Mar 5, 2024

3/5

…was and is an innocent film, made by kids for kids, and with adult concerns only getting in the way…there’s an appropriately child-like glee in Bugsy Malone’s best songs, which all sound great today, and the staging is agreeably quaint...

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Michael Barrett

PopMatters

Oct 22, 2021

7/10

Williams writes good songs and the whole production has a good-natured, uncynical vibe.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Sep 3, 2021

2/4

Alan Parker directed a handful of exemplary musicals over the course of his career, but this isn't one of them.

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Huntin P

@PaxVobiscum80 6 days ago

Anyone who doesn't love Bugsy is in need of a good splurging. A Prohibition era musical comedy by Alan Parker, an Anglo-American production shot in the UK and the cast all made up of twelve-year-olds, or thereabouts. The Tommy guns used by the gangsters don't shoot bullets. They shoot splurge. What a ballsy debut for a British director, an original musical comedy, a tongue-in-cheek celebration of American genre cinema. The young Jodie Foster, already supremely confident, advising Parker as much as he was directing her, or so he said, charmingly. The musical numbers are terrific and the action sequences immense fun. The cast had a ball making this movie, and for once that doesn't come at a cost to the audience. When internet idiots say, "Huh huh, they couldn't make that today!", I have to book another dental appointment to treat my grinding problem. On the debit side, there are plot threads that essentially go nowhere, and the music does rather squat in one's head, without a permit.

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Robert P

@Superbad Sep 18, 2026

Bugsy Malone = a *4* star Movie!

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Amber B

@VelvetMovies May 15, 2026

I absolutely love this movie to bits, its a classic!. Its such a nostalgic movie the sound track has absolute bangers and the movie is quite niche but you'll find nothing like it the 1920's aspect and how attentive to details the directors were is admirable. Will always be at the one of the top spots for favourite movies for me.

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John D

@bilbot Jan 23, 2026

What a deeply strange film this is on every level.

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John K

@WQCMI Nov 4, 2025

Bugsy Malone is an instant classic! The songs are memorable and catchy, the characters are enjoyable to watch, the idea of making a parody of gangster movies was a unique concept back in the 70s, and the film's budget shows that sometimes you don't have to rely on a Hollywood formula to make a masterpiece.

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Jamie B.

@jcdcj4 Sep 4, 2025

I have always loved busgy malone. I can’t even count how many times I have watched this movie. My little sister and I have grown up watching this movie over and over again. Fan favorite for life.

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Synopsis

Fat Sam (John Cassisi), Bugsy (Scott Baio) and Tallulah (Jodie Foster) are kids playing adults in Roaring '20s New York.

Director: Alan Parker
Producer: Alan Marshall
Screenwriter: Alan Parker
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Paramount Pictures, The Rank Organisation, Goodtimes Enterprises
Rating: G
Genre: Musical, Comedy
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 15, 1976, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 6, 2018
Runtime: 1h 33m

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