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Bulworth

  • 19981998
  • RR
  • 1h 48m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
26K
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Bulworth (1998)
Theatrical Trailer from 20th Century Fox
Play trailer1:39
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  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Romance
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.
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
26K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Warren Beatty
  • Writers
    • Warren Beatty(story)
    • Jeremy Pikser(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Warren Beatty
    • Halle Berry
    • Kimberly Deauna Adams
Top credits
  • Director
    • Warren Beatty
  • Writers
    • Warren Beatty(story)
    • Jeremy Pikser(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Warren Beatty
    • Halle Berry
    • Kimberly Deauna Adams
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 242User reviews
    • 98Critic reviews
    • 75Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 1 win & 20 nominations total

    Videos1

    Bulworth
    Trailer 1:39
    Bulworth

    Photos33

    Warren Beatty in Bulworth (1998)
    Warren Beatty in Bulworth (1998)
    Warren Beatty and Oliver Platt in Bulworth (1998)
    Warren Beatty and Halle Berry in Bulworth (1998)
    Warren Beatty, Jonathan Roger Neal, Tony Tomas Randle, and Arthur Reggie III in Bulworth (1998)
    Warren Beatty in Bulworth (1998)
    Halle Berry in Bulworth (1998)
    Halle Berry in Bulworth (1998)
    Warren Beatty, Halle Berry, Ariyan A. Johnson, and Michelle Morgan in Bulworth (1998)
    Warren Beatty and Halle Berry in Bulworth (1998)
    Warren Beatty and Halle Berry in Bulworth (1998)
    Warren Beatty in Bulworth (1998)

    Top cast

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    Warren Beatty
    Warren Beatty
    • Jay Bulworthas Jay Bulworth
    Halle Berry
    Halle Berry
    • Ninaas Nina
    Kimberly Deauna Adams
    • Denishaas Denisha
    Vinny Argiro
    • Debate Directoras Debate Director
    Sean Astin
    Sean Astin
    • Garyas Gary
    Kirk Baltz
    Kirk Baltz
    • Debate Produceras Debate Producer
    Ernie Lee Banks
    Ernie Lee Banks
    • Leroyas Leroy
    • (as Ernie Banks)
    Amiri Baraka
    Amiri Baraka
    • Rastamanas Rastaman
    Christine Baranski
    Christine Baranski
    • Constance Bulworthas Constance Bulworth
    Adilah Barnes
    Adilah Barnes
    • Mrs. Brownas Mrs. Brown
    Graham Beckel
    Graham Beckel
    • Man with Dark Glassesas Man with Dark Glasses
    Brandon N. Bowlin
    • Bouncer #2as Bouncer #2
    Mongo Brownlee
    • Henchman #3as Henchman #3
    Thomas Jefferson Byrd
    Thomas Jefferson Byrd
    • Uncle Rafeeqas Uncle Rafeeq
    J. Kenneth Campbell
    J. Kenneth Campbell
    • Anthonyas Anthony
    Scott Michael Campbell
    Scott Michael Campbell
    • Head Valetas Head Valet
    Jann Carl
    Jann Carl
    • Carl Jannas Carl Jann
    Kerry Catanese
    • Video Reporter #4as Video Reporter #4
    • Director
      • Warren Beatty
    • Writers
      • Warren Beatty(story) (screenplay)
      • Jeremy Pikser(screenplay)
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Warren Beatty held a private screening of this film for Professor Cornel West. Beatty was unsure if he wanted to release the film and asked West's opinion. West praised the film and told Beatty that it needed to be seen.
    • 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...

      [talks a little]

      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

    User reviews242

    Review
    Top review
    7/10
    Sort of predicted Trump and Bernie
    Doesn't date well but fascinating to see how the populist straight talking message can be applied to both the left and the right. Patrick Caddell who collaborated with Beatty on this and served as a political consultant to Carter originally, took his anti establishment views and ultimately switched allegiances to the Bannon wing of the Trump supporters. The evening after his first Consultation with Trump was when Trump came out swinging and declared the media the enemy. Art and life are strange.
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    • Feb 5, 2021

    Details

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    • Release date
      • May 22, 1998 (United States)
    • 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
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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

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