Christine Baranski, Don Cheadle, Halle Berry

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 cul...( read more  read more... )ture.

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R, 1 hr. 47 min.

Directed by: Warren Beatty

Release Date: May 22, 1998

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DVD Release Date: March 16, 1999

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  • May 16, 2008
    Warren Beatty does wonders for this , simply amazing film. He's having a mid life crisis and its hilarious to watch
  • April 24, 2008
    Warren Beatty indeed is a legend. A fine, charismatic actor who turned to the other side of the camera to create a few acclaimed pictures, like "Reds" or produce "Bugsy" which consists one of the best dialogue ever put on screen. "Bulworth", his fourth and last feature is sharply...( read more)-written, hilariously funny, intensly vulgar political satire that can easily concur with the finest achievements in the field, such wonderful titles like "Wag the Dog" or even "Network".

    I'm sure that many of us would like to turn on TV someday and see some policitian (or a president, if you live in US or Poland) that snaps and starts to talk how things really are behind the curtain of banana smile and candy talk about integrity, fidelity and honesty, getting shit-faced, speaking as if he experienced a sudden revelation of what a fruad he's been all this time and searching redemption by telling the truth. Of course, bringing it back to reality it sounds like a nonsense for it's as unlikely as the chance that aliens from outer space will land on my garden tonight but the oppurtunity to see what can happen in a case like this is enough to make a good comedy, and Beatty couldn't hit better here.

    "Bulworth" is a entertaining commentary on politicial and cultural chaos, and even if most of it isn't any news it's still a big laugh to see a guy in a fancy suit turning into raper, rhyming to the beat of his crazy-pounding heart. Hats off!
  • January 21, 2008
    Simultaneously very silly and poignant. It's like Chris Rock or Robin Williams trying to make a satirical, humorous political film, only it came out much sooner.

    A great cast and crew, but it seems just a bit too stereotypical for a movie so bent on destroying stereotypes.
  • April 26, 2007
    good satire, i liked it
  • April 11, 2007
    People don't refer to this film anymore, but when it was releaesd it was on of my favurite and down right hilarious (it also sported a wonderfully up beat music video that would eventually become wonderfull annoying and over played).

    Smart and worth the watch.
  • October 18, 2009
    can't remember the last film making me laugh so hard

    the sad thing is - everything said in this film is true ...
  • August 16, 2009
    So funny to watch. Warren really did an amazing preformence.
  • July 26, 2009
    Have lots of mistakes for a movie.But still the most interesting political movie for me.I didnt liked "Milk" that much because there were too much politics that bore me (and lots of gay scenes).But "Bulworth attract me because of its oscar nomination script.Other than Warren Beat...( read more)ty's directing is not that great.His acting was very good.But ? espeically gave this rate for the script.And Oliver Platt's acting.And did you noticed,in the cast place on flixster there isnt Warren Batty's name.
  • July 7, 2009
    A fantastic performance from Warren Beatty in this tiular role - as well as solid direction - of this sharp and funny political satire, ably supported by a fine supporting cast, including Halle Berry, Oliver Platt and Don Cheadle. One of the better films of 1998.
  • July 1, 2009
    Great idea - politician has a nervous breakdown and starts telling the truth, which makes him popular with the voters and unpopular with everyone else. Sadly they try too hard, chuck in waaay too many subplots (him becoming "black" never really works) and push it until it collaps...( read more)es in on itself and at the end it fizzles out where there should be a big bang. Platt is completely brilliant though. Man Of The Year with Robin Williams did a better job.

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