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Bulworth

  • 1998
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 48m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
28K
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Bulworth (1998)
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Political DramaSatireComedyDramaRomance

A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop mus... Read allA suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.

  • Director
    • Warren Beatty
  • Writers
    • Warren Beatty
    • Jeremy Pikser
  • Stars
    • Warren Beatty
    • Halle Berry
    • Kimberly Deauna Adams
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.8/10
    28K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Warren Beatty
    • Writers
      • Warren Beatty
      • Jeremy Pikser
    • Stars
      • Warren Beatty
      • Halle Berry
      • Kimberly Deauna Adams
    • 243User reviews
    • 74Critic reviews
    • 75Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 1 win & 20 nominations total

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    Warren Beatty
    Warren Beatty
    • Jay Bulworth
    Halle Berry
    Halle Berry
    • Nina
    Kimberly Deauna Adams
    • Denisha
    Vinny Argiro
    • Debate Director
    Sean Astin
    Sean Astin
    • Gary
    Kirk Baltz
    Kirk Baltz
    • Debate Producer
    Ernie Lee Banks
    Ernie Lee Banks
    • Leroy
    • (as Ernie Banks)
    Amiri Baraka
    Amiri Baraka
    • Rastaman
    Christine Baranski
    Christine Baranski
    • Constance Bulworth
    Adilah Barnes
    Adilah Barnes
    • Mrs. Brown
    Graham Beckel
    Graham Beckel
    • Man with Dark Glasses
    Brandon N. Bowlin
    • Bouncer #2
    Mongo Brownlee
    • Henchman #3
    Thomas Jefferson Byrd
    Thomas Jefferson Byrd
    • Uncle Rafeeq
    J. Kenneth Campbell
    J. Kenneth Campbell
    • Anthony
    Scott Michael Campbell
    Scott Michael Campbell
    • Head Valet
    Jann Carl
    Jann Carl
    • Carl Jann
    Kerry Catanese
    • Video Reporter #4
    • Director
      • Warren Beatty
    • Writers
      • Warren Beatty
      • Jeremy Pikser
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    User reviews243

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    8LeonLouisRicci

    In Your Face Farce

    An impossible feat to pull off, this film is remarkable in its audacious use of Rap rhythms and in your face farce that is a wonder to behold. There is literally nothing like this in moviedom. An over the top take on class war and politics that is amazingly fresh.

    You would hardly think that Warren Beatty as a depressed suicidal Senator having a nervous breakdown and suffering from sleep deprivation, taking on the ridiculous persona of an inner-city youth and parading it in front of the National News Media, could work as a piercing political satire. But it does, and it is a devastating delivery of an unbridled, out of the box, stream of consciousness conviction of a world gone mad.

    This is probably too pretentious and pandering for anyone but the far left to tolerate. However, even years later it is timeless, and you cannot deny that it is a mind-numbing movie that is entertaining and one must wonder, just how they made it happen. But here it is.
    8billcr12

    Good Political Satire

    Warren Beatty is the director, writer, and star of Bulworth, a political black comedy in the tradition of Bob Roberts and the Contender. He is an old fashioned 60s liberal who has moved to the center to appease the voters. His marriage has secretly been an open one for years, showing the public the perfect couple; sounds like the Clintons. He decides to take out a large life insurance policy and have someone kill him, in order to leave the money to his daughter. He goes off the deep end by appearing at campaign events drunk and making inappropriate comments, which make him a media star. He meets a staffer, Nina(the physically perfect Halle Berry), and the senator quickly hook up; surprise, surprise. Her brother is a drug dealer, and Bulworth hangs out with them and she reveals a big secret. He is revitalized as a candidate and the movie ends ambiguously. Beatty is funny and likable as the politician, and I am always mesmerized by Berry's beauty. Bulworth is a solid 8/10.
    m1965

    More true in 2021

    I'm watching this movie in 2021 thinking - wow - this is so spot on for today, and made over 20yrs ago.

    Apparently nobody listened.
    8Curtin-3

    The most daring political satire ever made.

    I cannot recommend 'Bulworth' highly enough. Sure, I've seen lots of worthy political satires. 'The Candidate', 'Wag the Dog', 'Bob Roberts', and others. But this is the finest example ever made. Warren Beatty should be very proud of this masterpiece. Not only for the guts it took to so brazenly confront the modern political process (and how it affects race relations, the film industry, education, medicine, and so on) but also for the fact that he wrote it, produced it, directed it, and starred in it. Any one of those jobs can be a supreme undertaking, and here he has accomplished all four with integrity, wit, humor, intelligence, and undeniable brass. It is quite simply impossible to watch this movie without being repeatedly shocked at the depth of its honesty. The supporting cast is also excellent, and Don Cheadle stands out as LD.
    7marcosaguado

    Not Just A Pretty Face

    You have to hand it to Warren Beatty, he redefines the term "maverick". He could be, like many of his contemporaries, taking it easy. Instead, "Bullworth". One of the most outrageously funny satires I've seen in a long time. Satire? Somebody asked me. Well yes, satire. A realistic, daring, clearheaded, masterful satire. We live in satirical times, we have no choice in the matter. It takes an artist of Beatty's caliber to turns things around and makes us laugh and shiver at this mess of our own making. After seeing "Bullworth" I felt compelled to revisit some of Beatty's earlier work as an actor or producer or director. From "Mickey One" to "Reds" passing through "Bonnie And Clyde" and "Shampoo" not to mention "Heaven Can Wait" Mr. Beatty's legacy is one of amazing consistency. As I smiled enjoying his funny portrayal in "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone" with Vivien Leigh, I thought: that beautiful man is not just a pretty face.

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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Aaron Sorkin and James Toback did a great deal of uncredited work on the script.
    • Goofs
      Bulworth tells the assassin that he will be traveling to Los Angeles via American Airlines, yet the arrival airplane footage shown is clearly a Southwest Airline plane.
    • Quotes

      Sen. Jay Billington Bulworth: Obscenity? The rich is getting richer and richer and richer while the middle class is getting more poor/ Making billions and billions and billions of bucks/ well my friend if you weren't already rich at the start well that situation just sucks/cause the riches mother fucker in five of us is getting ninety fuckin eight percent of it/ and every other motherfucker in the world is left to wonder where the fuck we went with it/ Obscenity?/ I'm a Senator/ I gotta raise $10,000 a day every day I'm in Washington/ I ain't getting it in South Central/ I'm gettin it in Beverly Hills/ So I'm votin from them in the Senate the way they want me too/ and-and-and I'm sending them my bills/ But we got babies in South Central dying as young as they do in Peru/ We got public schools that are nightmares/ We got a Congress that ain't got a clue/We got kids with submachine guns/ We got militias throwing bombs/ We got Bill just gettin all weepy/ We got Newt blaming teenage moms/We got factories closing down/ Where the hell did all the good jobs go? Well, I'll tell you where they went/My contributors make more profits makin, makin, makin, Hirin' kids in Mexico/ Oh a brother can work in fast food/ If he can't invent computer games/ But what we used to call America/ That's going down the drains/How's a young man gonna meet his financial responsibilities workin and motherfuckin Burger King? He ain't! And please don't even start with that school shit/ There aint no education going on up in that motherfucker/ Obscenity? We got a million brothers in prison/ I mean, the walls are really rockin/But you can bet your ass they'd all be out/If they could pay for Johnny Cochran/ The constitution is supposed to give them an equal chance/ Well, that ain't gonna happen for sure/ Ain't it time to take a little from the rich motherfucker and give a little to the poor? I mean, those boys over there on the monitor/ they want a government smaller and weak/ but the be speakin for the riches 20 percent when they pretend they're defendin the meek/ Now, shit, fuck, cocksuker, that's the real obscenity/ Black folks livin with every day/ Trying to believe a mothefuckin word Democrats and Republicans say/ Obscenity? I'm Jay Billington Bulworth And I've come to say/ The Democratic party's got some shit to pay/ It's gonna pay it in the ghetto/ It's gonna pay it in the...

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      Sen. Jay Billington Bulworth: You know the guy in the booth who's talking to you in that tiny little earphone? He's afraid the guys at network are gonna tell him that he's through/ If he lets a guy keep talking like I'm talking to you/ Cause the corporations got the networks and they get to say who gets to talk about the country and who's crazy today/ I would cut to a commercial if you still want this job/ Because you may not be back tomorrow with this cooperate mob/Cut to commercial, cut to commercial, cut to commercial. Ok ok I got a simple question that I'd like to ask of this network/ That pays you for performing this task/ How come they got the airwaves? They're the peoples aren't they? Wouldn't they be worth 70 billion to the public today? If some money-grubbin Congress didn't give them away for big campaign money? It's hopeless you see/ If you're runnin for office with out no TV/If you don't get big money/ You get a defeat/ Corporations and broadcasters make you dead meat/ You been taught in this country there's speech that is free/ But free don't get you no spots on TV/If you want to have senators not on the take/ Then give them free air time/ They won't have to fake/ Telecommunications is the name of the beast/that, that, that, that, that's eating up the world from the west to the east/ The movies, the tabloids, TV and magazines/ they tell us what to think and do/ And all our hopes and dreams/ All this information makes America phat/ But if the company's outta the country/ How American is that? But we got Americans with families that can't even buy a meal/ Ask a brother who's been downsized if he's getting any deal/ Or a white boy bustin ass til they put him in his grave/ He ain't gotta be a black boy to be livin like a slave/ Rich people have always stayed on top by dividing white people from colored people/ but white people got more in common with colored people then they do with rich people/ we just gotta eliminate them. White people, black people, brown people, yellow people, get rid of 'em all/ All we need is a voluntary, free spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction/ Everybody just gotta keep fuckin' everybody til they're all the same color

    • Crazy credits
      For the song "Bulworth Breakdown," the title character Jay Bulworth is credited as a writer and performer.
    • Connections
      Featured in Pras Feat. Ol' Dirty Bastard & Mya: Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are) (1998)
    • Soundtracks
      Semper Fidelis
      Composed by John Philip Sousa

      Performed by The Band of the Grenadier Guards

      Conducted by Major Rodney Bashford

      Courtesy of The Decca Record Company Limited/London Records

      By Arrangement with PolyGram Film & TV Music

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    • Release date
      • March 22, 2000 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Tribulations
    • Filming locations
      • Los Angeles International Airport - 1 World Way, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $30,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $26,528,185
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $141,816
      • May 17, 1998
    • Gross worldwide
      • $29,202,884
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    Tech specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 48 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • DTS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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