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🗓️ 29 October 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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This week, we're discussing the 1998 film Bulworth, which features a rapping Warren Beatty, a young Josh Malina, a few problematic moments, and some wonderful and strange ones, too.
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0:00.0 | You're listening to the West Wing Weekly Political Film Fest. I'm Rishi K. She're talking about the West Wing Weekly Political Film Fest. I'm Rishi K Sherway. And I'm Joshua Molinaina and today we're talking about the film |
0:14.2 | Bullworth. Bullworth was written by Warren Beatty and Jeremy Pixar with an |
0:18.2 | uncredited rewrite some involvement we'll get to that later by Aaron Sorkin it was released on |
0:24.9 | May 22nd 1998 here's the synopsis at least the one that was provided by |
0:30.7 | Apple TV where I rented this to watch. |
0:33.0 | Sure. |
0:33.6 | It says, believing his career is over. |
0:36.1 | Senator Jay Bulworth, played by Warren Beatty, |
0:38.8 | takes out an enormous insurance policy |
0:41.0 | and a contract on his own life. |
0:43.0 | But his impending death fills him with an outrageous desire to break the rules and tell it like |
0:47.0 | it is. |
0:48.0 | With new enthusiasm to live, fueled in part by a beautiful woman named Nina, played by |
0:52.1 | Holly Berry, |
0:53.2 | Bulworth must now somehow stop the hit |
0:55.4 | that he has put out on himself before it's too late. |
0:57.8 | It's a good premise. |
0:58.8 | One other thing to note besides Aaron Sorkin's involvement |
1:01.9 | in this film, I think right up top is Joshua Molina's involvement in this film. |
1:05.0 | Yes, thank you. As our audience has come to learn, I will remind them endlessly and ceaselessly about my involvement and whatever we're discussing. |
1:12.0 | How did you end up getting involved in the movie? |
1:15.0 | It's a good question. |
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