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Bob Roberts

DVD Cover Information Actor: Eva Amurri, Giancarlo Esposito, Merrilee Dale, Peter Gallagher, Tom Atkins Brand: Lions Gate DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 102 minutes DVD Release Date: 2001-08-14 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Lions Gate

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Movie Reviews of Bob Roberts

Movie Review: The greatest horror movie of all time.
Summary: 5 Stars

Robbins is simply brilliant in the title role -- that of an ultra-right-wing senatorial candidate who tours his home state of Pennsylvania in a bus called "The Pride," accompanied by a politically-correct mix of minority and female staff members, grabbing every conceiveable opportunity to manipulate the press and forward his campaign. Robbins imbues the role with the kind of doubletalk and charm and slippery charisma that, whether we realize it or not, drives the entire political candidacy system. That it takes us a little time to stop smiling back at him and get truly disgusted is testament to the need for this film.

Perhaps the most chilling element of BOB ROBERTS is the constant silencing and/or nullification of any and all sane voices that dare to oppose Roberts and what he stands for. In a segment where Roberts -- whose fairly ingenious attempt to usurp the "freewheeling" image of Bob Dylan requires him to record and release several folk albums -- becomes the musical guest on an episode of "Cutting Edge Live" (a blatant reference to "Saturday Night Live," the program where the character of Bob Roberts made his debut during an episode hosted by Robbins), the objections of both the guest host (played by Robbins' sometimes co-star John Cusack) and one of the producers to Roberts' very presence on the show is undercut and overridden in short order by the powers-that-be, who see nothing more than the ratings to be garnered by the candidate's appearance, and nothing wrong with the ethical price being paid for such a coup.

Competing with that sequence for most terrifying moment is the initial depiction of Roberts' biggest fans, a triad of future KKK or otherwise malefic militia members, average age twentyish, whose gazes are as blank and fanatical as the robotic rhetoric that clearly drives them to idolize -- and virtually drool in the presence of -- the grinning monster who even himself is disturbed by the level of the boys' devotion. The reappearance of these same boys, late in the film, rivals the most uncomfortable moments of ROSEMARY'S BABY for sheer revulsion at the abject wrongness of the nature of their worship.

Robbins, the writer, producer, and director as well as star of BOB ROBERTS, had the sense to refrain from releasing a soundtrack album to this film, as the litany of nigh-satanic folk songs ("Complain, Complain, Complain"; "Don't Vote"; etc.) would certainly, out of context, become an actual anthem for precisely the kind of subhuman American consumers whom Robbins viciously attacks throughout the film -- to me, solid proof that Robbins is less interested in money than his message, proving even further that he is indeed anti-Republican.

Get your hands on BOB ROBERTS. Use it as a litmus test for those around you whose political motives you doubt, or flat-out know to be problematic. If they clap along with the music and don't understand why the fictional documentarian winds up criticizing his own chosen subject, hand 'em some Klan literature and lose their phone numbers. The film is brash, courageous, important, and -- unfortunately -- timeless in this, the much-revered "land of the free."

Notable supporting roles are filled by the likes of Peter Gallagher, Alan Rickman, Helen Hunt, the remarkable Ray Wise (almost as scary here as he was in "Twin Peaks"), and the incomparable Gore Vidal (as Roberts' besieged-by-press-manipulation Democratic opponent).

And one more thing: watch the entire movie, all the way through the closing credits. Robbins' real message appears immediately thereafter.