Bulworth 1998, Rated R 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

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Starring Warren Beatty, et al. Released to DVD on March 16, 1999.

After losing a barrel load of money, California State senator Jay Bulworth (Warren Beatty) takes out an incredible amount of life insurance and hires a hitman to kill himself. With a weekend left to live, Bulworth says "what the hell" and starts telling it like it is, capturing the public's eye by partying all night, telling a league of black voters that they need to give his re-election campaign fund more money and stating on the record that he cares more about the faceless corporations that donate large sums of money to him than the American people themselves. Beatty and Jeremy Pikser's script is audacious to an extreme, which was precisely why I so enjoyed Bulworth. From any one given moment to the next, the senator's actions are completely unpredictable. Beatty, who completed his trifecta by directing Bulworth, gives a commanding comedic performance as Jay Bulworth, and knew just how the pepper the flow of this film with the right comic moments.