Lenny Bruce: Swear To Tell The Truth

At a time when the name "Lenny Bruce" is more likely to produce a "who?" than a howl, Robert Weide's portrait of the notorious "sick" stand-up comic, narrated by Robert De Niro, comes as a welcome and long overdue tribute. Forty years after he first horrified mainstream America, Bruce's material remains provocative and pertinent, but there's an even more valuable lesson to be learned from the outrageous circumstances that short-circuited Bruce's career and contributed to his untimely death in 1966. Writer-director Robert Weide patches together a solid biography of Bruce through the fond reminiscences of Bruce's mother, stand-up comedienne Sally Marr (who remembers ...