 Original Title: Bobby
Director: Emilio Estevez
Screenwriter: Emilio Estevez
Wardrobe
Julie Weiss
Film Editing by
Richard Chew
Nationality : United States
Genre :Drama
Release Date : 1 November 2006
Runtime : 120mn
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Synopsis
An ambitious labor of love from writer/director/star Emilio Estevez, BOBBY attempts to distill the hope, anger, and confusion that gripped the U.S. in the late 1960s. With the civil rights movement still reeling from the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the country embroiled in the confusion of Vietnam, Senator Robert F. Kennedy's campaign preached a message of peace and tolerance. In a style similar to the sprawling works of Robert Altman or Paul Thomas Anderson, Estevez uses the June 4th, 1969, assassination of Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles as the means to take a snapshot of the problems facing the country as the 1960's came to an end.
The hotel is a microcosm of class and race, with characters bouncing off each other until the violent conclusion. African-American head chef Edward (Laurence Fishburne) presides over a kitchen staffed primarily by Mexican Americans who are the victims of the racist restaurant manager, Timmons (Christian Slater). Timmons is reprimanded by hotel manager Paul Ebbers (William H. Macy), who is having an affair with a switchboard operator (Heather Graham) behind the back of his beautician wife (Sharon Stone). Meanwhile, a young Diane (Lindsay Lohan) prepares to marry her classmate, William (Elijah Wood), in order to save him from going to Vietnam, and two collegiate campaigners for Senator Kennedy remove their ties to take their first LSD trip, courtesy of a resident hippie drug dealer (Ashton Kutcher). Though the sheer volume of characters--and celebrities portraying them--is often overwhelming, Estevez is deft at making each plot thread convincing and involving. Though BOBBY is not a biopic and will in no way be mistaken for the definitive statement on the man or his life and times, it is thoroughly adept at distilling both his message and the time in which he fought to deliver it.
Cast
Demi Moore .....
Virginia Fallon
Anthony Hopkins
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John Casey
Sharon Stone .....
Miriam
Elijah Wood .....
William
Steve
Alvarez-Forbess
Jennifer Amy
Harry Belafonte .....
Nelson
Tony Besson
Michael Bowen
London Bridges
Joy Bryant
Daniel Byington
Nick Cannon
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Dwayne
Lori M. Cincotta
Emilio Estevez
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Tim
Laurence Fishburne
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Edward Robinson
Dave Fraunces
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Senator Kennedy
Jeridan Frye
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Ethel Kennedy
Drew Michael Gallagher
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Party Guest
Spencer Garrett
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David Novak
Rosemary Garris
Brian Geraghty
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Cooper
Jerry Giles
Shana Golden
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detective
Helen Hunt .....
Samantha
Heather Graham
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Angela
Joshua Jackson
David Kobzantsev
David Krumholtz
Ashton Kutcher
Shia LaBeouf
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Jimmy
John Lavachielli
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Donnelly
Lindsay Lohan .....
Diane
Gus Lynch
William H. Macy
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Paul
Kevin McCorkle
David McDivitt
Scoot McNairy
Svetlana Metkina
Joel Munoz
Caley Oakes-Bisson
Norm O'Neill
Kip Pardue
Jean-Pierre Parent
Lisa Pepper
Freddy Rodríguez
Dave Schuetz
Orlando Seale
Denny Seiwell
Martin Sheen
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