Synopsis
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
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Cast
- Harry BelafonteNelson
- Joy BryantPatricia
- Nick CannonDwayne
- Emilio EstevezTim Fallon
- Laurence FishburneEdward Robinson
- Brian GeraghtyJimmy
- Heather GrahamAngela
- Anthony HopkinsJohn Casey
- Helen HuntSamantha Stevens
- Joshua JacksonWade
Recommandations
- 91
Christian Science Monitor
It's a sideways view of a national trauma. The large cast includes standout performances from such unlikelies as Demi Moore, playing an alcoholic crooner, and Estevez himself, as her long-suffering husband. Everyone in this film is powerful. - 75
Premiere
Alll in all, however, Estevez has pulled together the best political drama, fiction or otherwise, in recent memory. - 70
Variety
Emilio Estevez's Bobby is a passionate outcry for peace and justice in America that becomes deeply involving by the final climactic scene. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Whether or not Bobby Kennedy was the man his supporters believed him to be, the film makes a persuasive case that something important in America was silenced when he was gunned down. - 60
The New York Times
When you hear his (Robert Kennedy's) patient, meditative speeches, from which every note of demagoguery or pandering has been purged, you glimpse the film Mr. Estevez set out to make -- the one you may wish you were watching. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
Bobby coasts along on a dread, and sorrow, it doesn't earn. - 50
ReelViews
The resulting finished project is a series of skits performed by famous people doing favors for a friend, and it works about as well as one might expect from such an endeavor. - 50
The A.V. Club
The film has virtually nothing to say about the man, or about much of anything, really. It's a sketchbook trying to pass as a tapestry.
