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Bulworth
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9786305297147
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305297142
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 SurroundEnglish (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
MPN: D4110398D
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 16, 1999
Running Time: 108 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: May 15, 1998
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Editorial Review:
Jay Bulworth is your typical senator going through a nervous breakdown. The empty speeches, lies, money, and pressure have led him to plan his own assassination on a weekend trip home to California just before the election. However, a cord snaps in him and like Jim Carrey's rambling lawyer in Liar, Liar, Bulworth can only tell the truth. This new freedom turns Bulworth on and he spews the ugly truth about politics: he tells mass media they are as corrupt as insurance companies; lambastes a black church for not having leaders; and riles the Jewish power elite of Hollywood. He enters South Central running away from advisors (including a bemused Oliver Platt) and mixing it up with a potential new girlfriend (Halle Berry) and a local boss (Don Cheadle). He offends across the board, even developing an inherent knack to rap his speeches. And the public loves it. The weekend becomes a clarifying point for Bulworth: he finds a reason to live.
Beatty's rude and relevant comedy is a one-joke movie, but the joke is pretty good. It's a courageous film that is always sharp even though it loses narrative focus. Beatty's hilarious raps are so inspired they deserve repeated viewings. As usual, Beatty surrounds himself with a great crew, Ennio Morricone's music and Vittorio Storaro's cinematography being especially noteworthy. Beatty and Storaro even have the audacity to imitate two very famous photographs in the film's final seconds. The script by Beatty and Jeremy Pikser won the L.A. Film Critics award and was nominated for an Oscar. --Doug Thomas
Believing his career is over, Senator Jay Bulworth (Beatty) takes out an enormous insurance policy - and a contract on his own life. but his impending death fills him with an outrageous desire to break the rules and tell it like it is.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - THE WORST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN
I saw this movie on video the year it was released and still I remember how AWFUL it was. Warren Beatty and Halle Berry trashed themselves in this movie.
YIKES! DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY!!
Rating:  - Warren Beatty For President!
Brilliant biting political satire--Beatty nails his character to the cross of truth letting rip a tale that will have you laughing and cheering him every step of the way. As Beatty once remarked, "I'm a traitor to my class." Living up to his word, Beatty shines a light on the corruption that is our status quo. Bulworth is still as relevant today as when it was released over decade ago--see it and see the lies shoveled at us in the mainstream--owned by the rich--media, for what they really are.
Rating: - Come on, let me hear that dirty word - SOCIALISM!
If you like political comedy, this is THE show for you. Beware, it deals mainly with the politics of the mid-1990s, a time when the Democratic Party was trying to develop a more conservative image to recover votes from the Newt Gingrich army. And who better to play senator Jay Bulworth than Warren Beatty, the same guy who directed REDS and played its American Communist hero?
Basically the idea is this: Democrats are (or WERE as of 1996) taking more and more money from corporations ... Read More
Rating: - Social satire at it's best
Warren Beatty made one of the best films of 1998 with this dark satire. Beatty not only made a good drama, he made a romantic film, a comedy with hip hop overtones among other things. The cast is excellent in particular Don Cheadle & Halle Berry. If you haven't seen this one check it out and enjoy.
Rating: - My Favorite Comedy
This one's smart as well as goofy, clever as well as slapstick. If you haven't ever seen it, you need to fix that immediately.
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