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Article: Warren Beatty on the 'Bulworth' pulpit.
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- May 22, 1998
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"Bulworth."
Rated R. At Copley Place and suburban theaters.
2 1/2 stars
Does anybody really want a lesson in politics from Warren Beatty? In "Bulworth," Beatty's daring, probably irrelevant comedy, the writer-director-actor plays a Los Angeles-based senator at the end of his tether. Terminally depressed and apparently broke, Jay Bulworth hires a hit man to kill him after arranging a $10 million insurance policy on his own life with his adolescent daughter as beneficiary.
Just as his primary campaign is peaking in 1996, Bulworth is on the verge of collapse. But the death sentence he's given himself empowers him. Suddenly, he feels free ...