Bobby (Widescreen Edtion)
by Emilio Estevez
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Actor: Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore, Elijah Wood, Lawrence Fishburne, Lindsay LohanDirector: Emilio Estevez
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Subtitled); Spanish (Published)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 119 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-04-10
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Movie Reviews of Bobby (Widescreen Edtion)
Movie Review: "Brothers and Countrymen..."
Summary: 3 Stars
Interspersed with actual footage of the turbulent 60s, Emilio Estevez presents his take on the fateful events in Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel in June 1968.
After an introductory scene of a hotel fire drill, we are led through a series of fictional vignettes about hotel workers and patrons, including two young campaign workers(Shia LeBoef, Brian Geraghty)
who enjoy chats in a diner with a pretty waitress and aspiring actress named Susan Taylor(Mary Elizabeth Winstead), but who shirk their campaign duties to drop acid with a hippie named Fisher(Ashton Kutcher), and a journalist from Czeckoslovakia(Svetlana Metkina) craving an interview with Senator Kennedy (David Fraunces), despite campaign manager Wade Buckley's(Joshua Jackson)objections.
Lawrence Fishburne plays chief kitchen staff member Edward Robinson, who encourages the potential of Latino bus boy, Jose Rojas(Freddy Rodriguez)amid bickering with bus boy Miguel ( Jacob Vargas), and Christian Slater's supervisor, Daryl Timmons is fired by Paul Ebbers(William H. Macy) for refusal allow the kitchen staff time off from work to vote.
Timmons retaliates by revealing Ebbers' extramarital fling with switchboard operator, Angela (Heather Graham)to Ebber's wife, Miriam (Sharon Stone), a beautician whose clientele include washed-up chanteuse, Virginia Fallon (Demi Moore), slated to introduce Senator Kennedy if she can stay sober, and a young bride-to-be named Diane(Lindsay Lohan), who is marrying her High School sweetheart, William Avery (Elijah Wood)to shield him from the Vietnam War draft. A certain irony would later emerge from that scenario.
Harry Belafonte and Anthony Hopkins play Nelson and John Casey, a retired hotel employee and doorman respectively, who enjoy games of chess together.
Nick Cannon's activist Dwayne, is a young man who views RFK as America's last great hope, and has pleasant but also sobering exchanges with switchboard girl, Patricia(Joy Bryant),encouraging her to view her existance in society as more than just marginal.
Martin Sheen and Helen Hunt play Jack and Samantha, a high-powered couple dealing with his depression and her materialism.
Estevez himself appears as Virginia Fallon's long-suffering husband, Tim, and David Krumholtz is her long-suffering agent, Phil.
In due time, all their stories are tied by a common thread during Sirhan Sirhan's (David Kobzantsev) climatic firing of a fatal round in the hotel kitchen, destroying hope, destroying lives, and devastating a sense of idealism for many.
We hear the Senator's condemnation of violence, prejudice, and fear as the wounded lay in need of assistance, and the last icon of 60s idealism is removed from our midsts forever.
The chaotic scene beneath an American flag at the hotel entrance says it all. It will be up to the shattered, scattered and confused left milling about as an ambulance drives off to pick up the banner, to bind a nation's wounds, and to make the American people brothers and countrymen again.
Summary of Bobby (Widescreen Edtion)
(Drama) A re-telling of the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in 1968. The film follows 22 individuals who are all at the hotel for different purposes but share the common thread of anticipating Kennedy's arrival at the primary election night party, which would change their lives forever. This historic night is set against the backdrop of the cultural issues gripping the country at the time, including racism, sexual inequality and class differences.Drama DVD Video
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