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| Directed by | Warren Beatty |
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| Story by | Warren Beatty |
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| Cinematography | Vittorio Storaro |
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| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
Production company | Mulholland Productions |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 108 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $30 million[2] |
| Box office | $29.2 million[3] |
Bulworth is a 1998 American political satire black comedy film co-written, co-produced, directed by, and starring Warren Beatty. It co-stars Halle Berry, Oliver Platt, Don Cheadle, Paul Sorvino, Jack Warden, and Isaiah Washington. The film follows the title character, California Senator Jay Billington Bulworth (Beatty), as he runs for re-election while trying to avoid a hired assassin. The film received generally positive reviews and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay yet narrowly failed to break even on a $30 million budget. However, Beatty was praised for tackling race, poverty, dysfunction in the health care system, and corporate control of the political agenda, with eminent legal scholar Patricia J. Williams noting the film examined "racism's intersection with America's deep, and growing, class divide."[4]
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