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Bobby (Full Screen Edition)

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starring: Harry Belafonte, Gene Borkan, Laurence Fishburne, Heather Graham, Helen Hunt

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
EAN: 0796019799317
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: The Weinstein Company
Manufacturer: The Weinstein Company
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: The Weinstein Company
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 10, 2007
Running Time: 119 minutes
Sales Rank: 9328
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Theatrical Release Date: November 23, 2006

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Editorial Review:

Description:
(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.

Amazon.com:
In the final quarter or so of Bobby, writer-director-actor Emilio Estevez finally starts tightening his grip on the viewer as we head inexorably toward the film's climax: the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in a Los Angeles hotel kitchen. In the course of these scenes--among them Kennedy's acceptance speech after winning the California Democratic presidential primary (the senator is seen only in file footage), his death at the hands of gunman Sirhan Sirhan, and the chaos and despair that ensued--Estevez steadily ratchets up the sense of tension and dread. Knowing exactly what's coming, while the characters onscreen don't, is excruciating, as is our grief at hearing RFK's own words, so eloquent, so hopeful and inspiring, as we watch the horrible events unfold and wonder what might have been (sure it's manipulative--but it works). But the rest of Bobby isn't nearly as compelling. Nor is it really about Kennedy, despite its obvious adulation of the man whom many thought would defeat Richard Nixon in the '68 general election. In the tradition of, say, an Irwin Allen disaster flick, we're invited into the lives of nearly two dozen folks, most of them at least partly fictional, who were at the Ambassador Hotel that June day, including guests, staff (kitchen workers, switchboard operators, management, etc.), campaign workers, reporters, and more. There are lots of movie stars in the cast, and some of them (Sharon Stone, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy) are very good. But caring about the quotidian minutiae of these people's existences is a chore, and Estevez crams so many issues into his story (the Vietnam war, drugs, alcoholism, voting irregularities, adultery, racism, immigration, communism… even L.A. Dodgers pitcher Don Drysdale's streak of consecutive shutouts) and tries so obviously to establish parallels between then and now that too much of the movie feels gratuitous and forced. A warts-and-all film about Robert Kennedy's extraordinary life and career would be welcome. Unfortunately, Bobby isn't it. --Sam Graham

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Excellent movie
Emelio Estevez did an excellent job with this movie. It showed how Bobby Kennedy affected the lives of people. It was good how he put the various footage of Bobby Kennedy's campaign trail in the movie as well. As I was only a wee baby at the time, it was excellent to see.

Rating:

- Incorrect Focus Cheapens Noble Intention
Prior to watching Bobby, I knew that the movie was about a group of people that were present when Robert (Bobby) Kennedy was assassinated. Thus, I thought the movie would be a portrayal of how Kennedy's death affected their lives. Instead, the movie was a (somewhat) fictionalized depiction of how these people spent the day of Kennedy's assassination, ending with the assassination itself. Consequently, my reaction to the movie was one of confusion and disappointment.

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- utter disappointment
I couldn't watch this movie more than 30 minutes. I expected something totally different given the all star cast and glowing reviews on the case. The acting was horrible. It was like the actors decided, "I am going to play this this way" and had no regard for being part of a cast. The dialog was horrible. The actors had no relationship to one another (even in the same scene). But the worst part of it all was the hard to miss propoganda. I didn't want a social commentary on what is going on today. I don't ... Read More

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- RFK, we need you
It brought me back to those times of turmoil in our country and someone who inspired us and gave us hope. Real TV footage & speaches by RFK. I purchased 3 of these, one at a time, and gave to friends of RFK's spirit.
We need someone like RFK now.

Rating:

- Bobby, Dear Dear, Bobby
Full of saccharine sentimentality, trite grandiose monologues, and waifer thin caricatures. This is another bad film about the idealized 60's generation that's being hailed by the graying 60's generation. Bobby marks the triumphant comeback and directorial debut of Emilio Estevez who was last seen in Mighty Ducks 3. Star power is running from out of both ends of Bobby, but alas, even the most gifted of thespians couldn't transmogrify the mouthfuls of gruel into fine caviar. Ham fisted dialogue handled ... Read More

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