lenny bruce be iconic richard pryor and george carlin and robin williams all owe much to bruce honesty . no one liners and just observational comedy on sex and relationship . here under bob fosse stark direction hoffman shin . this be the closet dustin hoffman come to method act represent if you go to youtube and look at bruce you can really see the effort hoffman put in here . the film try to explain and only partially successfully and how lenny come to be the comedian he be . the biographical format work well enough but we be never really give the insight a to how he develop his stage act and rather it be explain through the drug and circumstance . all in all a good and fairly gritty film and which chart the life of one f comedy great groundbreaker and and a killer performance by dustin hoffman .