Bulworth

1998 "Brace yourself. This politician is about to tell the truth!"
6.8| 1h48m| R| en| More Info
Released: 15 May 1998 Released
Producted By: 20th Century Fox
Country: United States of America
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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.

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Warren Beatty

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Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.
Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast
TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.
Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.
jwn-57737 This film is about awakening, speaking truth to power, levelling with people and racial equality. Conservatives would hate it. And they do. For the rest of humanity, itis amazing, it is powerful and it is genuinely a riot of laughter.
tbills2 Bulworth has prime performers aplenty appearing in this order. Warren Beatty (Hilarious and so lovely.). Christine Baranski. Oliver Platt. Debra Monk. Florence Stanley. Jack Warden. Nora Dunn. Jim Haynie. Paul Sorvino. Richard C. Sarafian. Joshua Malina. Laurie Metcalf. Wendell Pierce. Sean Astin. Halle Berry (Halle is the most beautiful woman ever. She really is. I love Miss Halle Berry. She's so sexy in this movie. It's really romantic seeing Halle throughout Bulworth. I loooooove Halle, man. I love her more than anybody else in the world.). Ariyan A. Johnson. Isaiah Washington. Mimi Lieber. Stanley DeSantis. Michael Clarke Duncan. Barry Shabaka Henley. Don Cheadle. Graham Beckel. Larry King. Helen Martin. Michael Milhoan. Chris Mulkey. Billy Baldwin.Haha, this movie's really funny. And really silly. And really real. And really goofy, haha. And really smart. And really stupid, hahaha.Now is the time for a little rhyme. In honor of this movie. It's time to get groovy. I love you Halle Berry. I kinda wanna marry. You in real life. And I wouldn't think twice. I really love your beauty. You have a phat booty. You really make me happy. So I never feel crappy. You're really really pretty. The cutest in the city. I love your pretty smile. And your sexy style. You have the best eyes. And the best thighs. I love the way you stare. And your sexy hair. Your attitude's the best. Are you funny, yes. Halle you're a treat. You suck your sucker sweet. Baby you can dance. You put me in a trance. You flick your tongue so nice. I need you in my life. I love your free spirit. Your voice I'd love to hear it. Your lips I want to kiss. I know it would be bliss. You can act with the best. Forget about the rest. I promise you're the hottest. I am not being modest. Halle, give me all your lovin'. Gosh, you're hotter than an oven. In Bulworth, Halle, I love that I can see your thong. In life, Halle, I love that you inspired me to write this song.I'm not as good a rapper as Bulworth. Or ODB. Or Pras.'ghetto superstarrr that is what u rrr coming from afarrr reaching for the starrrs run away with meee to another plaaace we can relyy on each other uh huuuhh from 1 coorner to another uh huuh'
Robert J. Maxwell Warren Beatty is a California Senator who hasn't slept or eaten anything for days. He's distracted, exhausted, going mad. He decides to take out a large insurance policy and then arranges to have himself murdered by a hit man he's never met. Since he knows he's losing his life, losing his political position begins to look like a small matter, so he appears disheveled at fund raisers and criticizes Jews at a meeting of movie moguls, blacks at a meeting of blacks, refers to Catholics as "mackeral snappers," and so on. His staff are going mad too by this time.Eventually, Beatty falls in with a large and diverse black family in the ghetto, led there in a sinuous path by Hallie Berry. He picks up a skill at rhyming speech, dresses like a home boy in shades and phat pants, and gets one too many capitalists angry at him when he takes up liberal causes.I don't know why it doesn't work better than it does. It's not Beatty's performance, which is about as good as it usually is, and he has some very funny moments. The performances of Beatty's staff, led by Oliver Platt, are fine as well, except that they turn chaotic at the end. It's not Hallie Berry, who is so sexy, so beautiful, so fey in her prospect that she can do no wrong. Her father was African-American and her mother was a white European. She's only categorized as "black" because we all agree that she should be. Just as it's only common agreement that gives English separate words for "blue" and "green", while other languages have only one word for both colors. Sometimes "reality" is what we make of it. I'm throwing that in, just in case anyone is curious about issues like this. They should look up "the social construction of reality" in Google. Beatty's improvised rap lyrics are amusing when they're not too fast or too complicated to understand. The hip hop music is execrable. My heart sinks when I hear it because it takes so little skill to produce. I have more than enough electronic percussion ringing in my ears from the moment I get out of bed. And when my nervous system started to go berserk, my thoughts took on a peculiar configuration too but it had class -- iambic pentameter. I'm not sure of the significance of the ending. We've had a kind of lecture on the positions that many blacks are forced into, including the children, and the bitterness they feel towards whites. When Bullworth begins to spout his more generous views, at least some of them, like Don Cheadle, are so amazed that they reform. Okay. A nice warm and uplifting ending. But if it's supposed to be a feel-good fairy tale, why have Bullworth end up as he does? It doesn't seem as if the writers had a clear end game in sight. They're like some of our politicians trying to manage events in the turbulent Middle East.
Ben Larson "All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. Everybody just gotta keep f*ckin' everybody 'til they're all the same color."I revisit this film periodically as it is so appropriate to what is happening in the country. Warren Beatty has written, directed, and starred in a timeless ode to the fact that our fascist state is so behind in health care and taking care of the poor."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 f*cker in five of us is getting ninety f*ckin eight percent of it/ and every other motherf*cker in the world is left to wonder where the f*ck we went with it."Yes, we are reminded by this film that we are all at the mercy of the rich. They rape the riches of America and enslave the rest of us. It's hard to take, especially by those who would excuse their behavior because they are waiting for their in the "Promised Land." "I'm giving them entry-level positions into the only growth-sector occupation that's truly open to them right now. That's the substance supply industry. They gonna run this sh*t someday. They gonna have the whole empire. Man, y'all don't give a f*ck about it. You greedy-ass politicians. That's what you tell me every time that y'all vote to cut them school programs; every time y'all vote to cut them funds to the job programs. What the f*ck; how a... how a young man gonna take care of his financial responsibilities workin' at motherf*ckin' Burger King? He ain't. He ain't, and please don't even start with the school sh*t. They ain't no education going' on up in that motherf*cker. 'Cause y'all motherf*ckin' politicians done f*cked the sh*t up. So what they gonna do? What's a young man supposed to do then, right? What's he gonna do? He gonna come to me, that's what he's gonna do. Why? 'Cause I'm a businessman, and as a businessman, you gotta limit your liabilities. And that's what these shorties offer me: limited liabilities; because of their limited vulnerability to legal sanctions, man. It's the same f*ckin' thing in politics, Dog. You find an edge, you gotta exploit that sh*t. That's why y'all sent all them motherf*ckin' teenagers to Iraq. Die over some motherf*ckin' oil money. Send the motherf*ckin' CIA up in the 'hood with all the f*ckin yayos. Slangin' in the hood man. It's the same sh*t in politics."We wonder why we have a problem in this country when we have an education system that is no better that is was before Brown V Topeka, and we keep sending the poor to fight so the rich can get richer.Sure, Bulworth is a political movie made by one of the most political people in Hollywood. It stings and it hurts those who are the object of the numerous political barbs contained therein. It hits at Democrats and Republicans - all politicians are equally to blame for the mess we have.You have to love Warren Beatty for having the courage to make this. It had some other greats here, too, in a huge cast. Halle Berry, Sean Astin, Don Cheadle, Oliver Platt and others, including cameos by Al Gore and others.I've given you a taste. See more, if you dare.