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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
1,633 Views


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...

ten million dollars

to my daughter.

Would five do it?

Why don't we just say seven?

Ten million.

That's a lot of life insurance.

If Jay Bulworth plays ball,

we'll play ball.

Oh, Senator,

I want you to meet Vinnie.

Vinnie, how are you?

Ready for the weekend

research project?

Davers, could you excuse us?

Thanks.

Uh, all right, Senator,

I'll be right outside.

Tell her we need

U.S. American dollars.

Small bills.

I wish I didn't have to go

through Davers to talk to you.

Davers can always reach me.

Davers is a sweetheart.

Did Davers ask you...

what the weekend

research project was?

Uh-uh.

Good.

Nobody knows but you and me.

You and me, Senator.

That's good.

Here's a couple of pictures

of the person.

Give them to whomever

is gonna do the, uh...

- Research.

- Research.

This is the first time...

I've ever arranged

to get a guy to off a guy...

who I don't know who the guy is

who he's gonna off.

You mean, research.

Yeah, research a guy

who I don't know who it is.

You said

you didn't have to know.

I'm just the liaison. I don't

want to know who this is...

and I don't want nobody knowin'

nothin' about me.

I need to talk to you,

I call Eddie Davers.

You need to talk to me,

you call Eddie Davers.

That way nobody knows nothin'.

- Fine.

- Except for one thing.

- What's that?

- I gotta know who this guy is.

- You just said...

- But that was in the abstract.

Now that we're really

doin' it...

and you don't tell me

who this is, and then, uh...

Simple math.

Take a look.

Excuse me.

What's the gag?

He will be arriving at LAX...

tomorrow night at 8:40

on American Airlines.

A check for the second half

of the money.

If I'm not dead by Monday,

I stop payment on that check.

Thank you for flying with us.

Have a pleasant stay

in Los Angeles.

As you exit the aircraft,

our flight agents...

will help direct you

to any connecting flights.

Oh, and have a nice day.

Welcome back.

Did you sleep on the plane?

We're running late, so let me

run through some changes.

By the way,

excellent work with Crockett.

The final haul

from the Sunday brunch is 1.1.

Insurance came up with 250.

We got two from oil, banks

are in for one and a half...

A.M.A. and the lawyers

came in just south of 100.

Gloria Allred got very excited

over your O.J. statement.

Even the women have coughed up.

Came in with about 65.

We do have a new schedule.

We have a black church,

and then we have Beverly Hills.

He's here.

It'd be nice later

to have a drink with the sultan.

The guy is nuts.

Welcome home, Senator.

- What's this?

- I told you.

Twenty-four hours

on the campaign trail.

This is Gary Plunkett of C-SPAN.

And Fred Tinsdale

and Mimi Binder.

How you doing?

Mimi and I are gonna be...

right behind you

in the truck, Senator.

MIMl:
Fred, get in the truck.

So, C-SPAN

is gonna be with us all night?

All weekend.

Tonight's installment...

airs tomorrow afternoon at 2:00.

Where are we going?

First stop, we are going

down to South Central.

Did you get a copy

of the schedule?

We're gonna be on the go.

First stop is South Central and

the African-American community.

Gee, your African-American

constituents...

down in South Central...

don't forget what you've done

for them, do they?

Where we going?

Down to Grace Church.

- Fred.

- What?

Did you say

you'd covered Bulworth before?

Yeah.

These things go by the book.

Then over to Beverly Hills...

to meet some big names

in the entertainment business.

Scotty, how are you?

Vivian, Rwanda,

I didn't expect you to be here.

Those key chains look fantastic.

How you feeling, Senator?

Get any sleep on the plane?

Has Mr. Murphy

forgotten something?

Mr. Murphy, the senator?

Whoops.

Senator? Senator Bulworth.

Senator...

The honorable senator

from California...

the Senator

Jay Billington Bulworth.

- Yay!

- Yay!

Hey, that's a nice

little piece of timing.

Amen.

Senator, your speech, sir.

Amen!

We stand at the doorstep

of a new millennium.

Listen to this.

I put a little time in on this.

And at the same time,

restore its creative power...

to reinvigorate our society...

And, uh...

bring about a, uh, rebirth

of, uh, democracy, uh...

Any questions?

Nice. Less is more.

When the riots went down

four years ago...

you promised us

federal funding to rebuild.

What happened?

What happened was...

we all knew

that was gonna be big news...

so we all came down here...

Bush, Clinton, Wilson...

got our pictures taken, told you

what you wanted to hear...

and we pretty much

forgot about it.

Ha ha ha!

Did you hear that?

Let's see where he's going.

We can't get health insurance,

fire insurance, life insurance.

Why haven't you come out

for Senate Bill 2720?

Because you haven't contributed

any money to my campaign.

You know how much insurance

companies come up with?

They depend on me

to get a bill like that...

and bottle it up in committee

during an election...

and then we can kill it

when you're not looking.

When you say "by the book, "

what book would that be?

So the Democrats

don't care about us?

Isn't that obvious?

Half your kids are out of work

and the other half are in jail.

Do you see any Democrat

doing anything about it?

Certainly not me.

What are you going to do,

vote Republican?

Come on. You're not

gonna vote Republican.

Let's call a spade a spade.

I mean, you can have

a Billion Man March.

If you don't put down

that malt liquor...

and stop backing a running back

who stabs his wife...

you're never gonna

get rid of somebody like me.

Fire! Fire! Fire!

Yo, fire alarm!

Nina, let's be out.

Fire!

Right this way, Senator.

What are you doing?

That was good.

That was really good.

Fire!

Does anybody know

where the fire actually is?

Where's the fire?

Does anybody know

exactly where the fire is?

I find it very worrying

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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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