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It’s amazing what
sleep deprivation can do to your head…
California Senator Jay Billington
Bulworth (Warren Beatty) finds out the hard way. He hasn’t slept or eaten for days,
thanks to his grueling re-election campaign schedule and the pressure that his
constituents are placing on him. Convinced that the most recent political disaster—just
days before the primaries—means the end of his career, he gets himself a $10 million life
insurance policy and hires some unknown hit man to kill him.
Bulworth’s
exhaustion makes him let loose and start doing things that are very un-political—like
being dangerously honest. And as the C-SPAN cameras follow close behind, he tells a
church full of poor inner-city dwellers that their needs don’t really matter because they
don’t contribute to his campaign fund. He tells Hollywood execs that they make horrible
movies. And he runs off to spend the night chasing a beautiful young woman (Halle Berry)
at an all-black after-hours club. That’s when he changes his mind about dying—and he
decides that he’s got to try to call off the killing before it’s too
late.
With its unexpected storyline and a twist or two to keep you on your
toes, this movie will make you laugh until you cry—right up to its frustratingly
ambiguous ending, which was the only part of this movie that I didn’t like. Warren
Beatty is wonderful—and Halle Berry shows why the Academy Award she won in 2002 was no
fluke. If you’re as cynical about politicians as I am (and really, who isn’t?), you’ll
enjoy this one.
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