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Originally Posted by HWBL
Ishtar (Beatty/Hoffman/Adjani)
The Fortune (Beatty/Nicholson/Channing)
Both hilarious, intelligently written, comedies.
Bulworth (Beatty/Berry/Platt/Warden/Sorvino)
A tragic farce or a farsical (sp) tragedy. Either way, a sublime political satire. Got snowed under because it premiered together with Godzilla. Neo-cons hated its subject matter, even though the Democrats were criticized in it, too.
All Beatty movies, so there!  |
These clips could just as well be posted in the "favorite movies" or
"silly movie scenes" threads, but since it's such an unknown and
underrated movie, I decided to post them here.
A little blurb I wrote for YouTube:
Obscure 1975 Mike Nichols comedy starring Warren Beatty (Nicky),
Jack Nicholson (Oscar) and introducing Stockard Channing (Frederica
Quintessa Biggard, Freddie for short) in her first big screen role.
A hilarious, much underrated movie that takes place in the 1920's,
when the MANN act prevented men and women from crossing state
borders for "immoral purposes". The still married Nicky and mistress
Freddie have planned that she will marry Oscar (in name only) so
that they can legally move to another state while waiting for Nicky's
divorce to be finalized.
Things do not go as planned and this makes for some excellent slapstick
comedy. Beatty and Nicholson are insanely funny as the bumbling
partners in crime. The 20's music is fantastic throughout the movie,
as can be experienced in this clip collage.
Stockard Channing also sings the opening song.
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