Bulworth Page #2

Synopsis: Senator Jay Bulworth is facing speculation-induced financial ruin, so he puts out a contract on his own life in order to collect a large, new insurance policy for his family. Living each moment on borrowed time, he suddenly begins spouting raw, unfiltered--and sometimes offensive in word but satirical in spirit -- thoughts to shocked audiences and handlers in the speech of hip-hop music and culture. His newfound uninhibitedness and new relationship with Nina carry him on a journey of political and spiritual renewal.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Warren Beatty
Production: 20th Century Fox
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 18 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
75
Rotten Tomatoes:
76%
R
Year:
1998
108 min
1,513 Views


Smile in the back, please.

OK, that's it.

Uh, Con... Uh...

We want to thank you all

for your help.

Any other help, please

make payable to Bulworth '96.

Serum cholesterol,

folate level...

liver function, blood pressure,

EKG... they're all fine.

Are you eating?

Uh, no, thanks.

No, I'm asking, have you

experienced a loss of appetite?

No, no, no.

I'm just not very hungry.

When was the last time you ate?

Mr. Fong

and the Chung family left.

Will Mr. And Mrs. Wang

be in California?

Hello, Helen, how are you?

- Hello, Mr. Crockett.

- Hello, Mrs. Dobish.

Mr. Crockett,

American Insurance Federation.

Jay. Jay.

Are you telling me you haven't

eaten or slept in three days?

That's not good.

Maybe you should talk

to someone.

I'll give you a name.

Milton Alexander.

He's head of Psychiatry

at Georgetown.

Uh, I got a meeting here.

This bill will devastate us.

- It will be...

- Crockett.

Can I call you back?

Doc, how's he doing?

Fine. Fine.

- How are you doing?

- Fine, fine. You?

- Fine.

- Fine.

Can you believe

this goddamn regulation bill?

Is the whole world going insane?

When you consider

the dislocation...

in the relationships

with the state commissioners...

or the effect

on the rate structure...

This bill's

gonna cost us billions.

And it's the usual people

making trouble.

You think I'm gonna say

it's the African Americans.

It's not the African Americans.

I have no problem

with African Americans.

I'm not other people.

Dr. Martin Luther King,

Colin Powell, Michael Jordan...

I have no problem with them.

They have good jobs.

But you throw down

some lazy, welfare-taking...

drug-dealing,

rap-singing punk...

and tell me my people

have to give him a policy. Why?

So he can burn down his house?

Or smoke crack and get AIDS?

You can't get AIDS

by burning your house down.

We got

the broadcasters, insurance...

A.M. A... Buddhists?

What about the Buddhists?

Vinnie! Ha ha ha ha!

Vinnie, you son of a b*tch,

how are you?

How you been?

Other than the prostate

like a coffee cake...

a little ticker trouble...

terrific.

To use an overworked phrase,

this bill is...

The bill is un-American.

And I have

total confidence in you...

that you can bottle up this bill

in committee.

What have we got there?

Oh, I got

your homeowner's insurance...

disability insurance,

umbrella, liability...

and I see no reason

why you shouldn't have...

a couple million dollars

in life insurance.

I thought we said ten.

- What?

- Ten. Ten million.

Pesos?

Senator... Ha ha ha.

I feel constrained to remind you

that what we said was...

a couple of million

paid to your daughter...

Four payments,

2.5 million each...

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Warren Beatty

Henry Warren Beatty (né Beaty; born March 30, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards – four for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay – winning Best Director for Reds (1981). Aside from Orson Welles for Citizen Kane, Beatty is the only person to have been nominated for acting in, directing, writing, and producing the same film, and he did so twice: first for Heaven Can Wait (with Buck Henry as co-director), and again with Reds. Eight of the films he has produced have earned 53 Academy nominations, and in 1999, he was awarded the Academy's highest honor, the Irving G. Thalberg Award. Beatty has been nominated for eighteen Golden Globe Awards, winning six, including the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, which he was honored with in 2007. Among his Golden Globe-nominated films are Splendor in the Grass (1961), his screen debut, and Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Shampoo (1975), Heaven Can Wait (1978), Reds (1981), Dick Tracy (1990), Bugsy (1991), Bulworth (1998) and Rules Don't Apply (2016), all of which he also produced. Director and collaborator Arthur Penn described Beatty as "the perfect producer", adding, "He makes everyone demand the best of themselves. Warren stays with a picture through editing, mixing and scoring. He plain works harder than anyone else I have ever seen." more…

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