YMMV / The Front

• Director Displacement: Woody Allen stars in the film, but he didn't write or direct.
• He Really Can Act:
  • Many of Woody Allen's non-fans (and even some of his admirers) have this reaction to his performance, one of his few where he was only an actor on cast. It was his most dramatic role to date, and he plays it with just as much gravity and depth as he would in one of the roles he'd written for himself.
  • Ditto for Zero Mostel. Roger Ebert felt he as "Hecky Brown" embodied the pain caused by McCarthyism.
• Moment of Awesome: The entire film seems to be building up to Howard's Moment of Awesome.
  Howard Prince: Fellas...I don't recognize the right of this committee to ask these kinds of questions. And furthermore, you can all go fuck yourselves.
• Tear Jerker: Hecky Brown jumping to his death. Even more so with the knowledge that this was Mostel's last appearance on the silver screen.^note His last role was posthumous in a voice acting role in Watership Down.