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1* AcclaimedFlop: It earned positive reviews and was an awards contender, but being released amid the {{Summer Blockbuster}}s killed any box office prospects.
2* BreakawayPopHit: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atJwz7nZ22s "Ghetto Superstar (That Is What You Are)"]] by Pras Michel ft. Ol' Dirty Bastard & Mya. If no one remembers the actual movie, they most likely will to the song.
3* CreatorKiller: This was the last film directed by Creator/WarrenBeatty until 2016's ''Film/RulesDontApply''.
4* DirectedByCastMember / WrittenByCastMember: Beatty directed the film and co-wrote it with Jeremy Pikser.
5* StillbornFranchise: There was a sequel in development named, ''Bulworth 2000'', satirising the 2000 Presidential Election, that was cancelled.
6* ThoseTwoActors: Creator/DonCheadle and Creator/IsaiahWashington also appeared together later that year in ''Film/OutOfSight''.
7* UncreditedRole: Creator/AaronSorkin was an uncredited script doctor for the screenplay, as was Creator/JamesToback.
8** Creator/WilliamBaldwin (as the lover of Bulworth's wife), Creator/PaulMazursky (AsHimself), and Creator/JosefSommer (as Bulworth's physician) appear uncredited.
9* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/MelvinVanPeebles was originally cast as Rastaman, but was replaced during the shoot by Amiri Baraka.
10* WriteWhatYouKnow: Creator/WarrenBeatty had actively worked on UsefulNotes/GeorgeMcGovern's 1972 presidential campaign (all of the pictures of the younger Jay Bulworth with figures like [=McGovern=] were real and not photo-shopped).

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