Bobby (2006)

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  • Opened November 22, 2006 
  • 2 hr 48 min
  • R

  • Bobby, written and directed by Emilio Estevez, revisits the night Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down at the Ambassador Hotel in 1968. With an incredible ensemble cast portraying fictionalized characters from a cross-section of America, 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. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Harry Belafonte, Joy Bryant, Nick Cannon, Sharon Stone, Emilio Estevez, Laurence Fishburne
  • Director: Emilio Estevez
  • Genres: Drama

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San Francisco Chronicle
| Mick LaSalle

Why such a structurally scattered movie should hang together at all is a mystery. That it does more than that, that it works brilliantly, is a miracle, or at the very least the product of unquantifiable causes. Read full review

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TV Guide
| Maitland McDonagh

Though Estevez's achievement doesn't quite live up to his ambitions -- the climax of Altman's "Nashville" (1975) evokes the same brutal loss of innocence to more shattering effect -- it still contains enough powerful moments to balance the weaker sections. Read full review

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Premiere
| Scott Warren

Alll in all, however, Estevez has pulled together the best political drama, fiction or otherwise, in recent memory. Read full review

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New York Daily News
| Elizabeth Weitzman

This is simply too vast a task for a filmmaker as inexperienced as Estevez. Compared with, say, Robert Altman's similar but far more complex "Nashville," Bobby mostly comes off as a Hollywood public service announcement: passionate, righteous and strikingly removed from reality. Read full review

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