Details

Release year: 1998

Storyline

A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.

Top credits

Directors

Warren Beatty

Writers

Cast

Warren Beatty — Jay Bulworth
Halle Berry — Nina
Kimberly Deauna Adams — Denisha
Vinny Argiro — Debate Director

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Awards

0 wins & 1 nomination

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Did you know

• Many objected against Warren Beatty hiring Composer Ennio Morricone to write the score for the film. One of the reasons was his hefty fee of about a million dollars and Beatty eventually won out over his producers. Despite all of this, Morricone only has a little more than ten minutes of his complete score featured in the final cut of the film which largely dominated by rap music and other source music. Morricone was not pleased with the end results of the film and what Beatty had done to his score.

• Aaron Sorkin and James Toback did a great deal of uncredited work on the script.

• Warren Beatty held a private screening of this film for Professor Cornel West. Beatty was unsure if he wanted to release the film and asked West's opinion. West praised the film and told Beatty that it needed to be seen.