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Bobby
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Directed By
Emilio Estevez

Written By:
Emilio Estevez

Cast:
Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Lindsay Lohan, Elijah Wood, William H. Macy, Helen Hunt, Christian Slater, Heather Graham, Laurence Fishburne, Freddy Rodriguez, Nick Cannon, Emilio Estevez, Martin Sheen, Shia LaBeouf, Jacob Vargas, Brian Geraghty, Joshua Jackson, Joy Bryant, Svetlana Metkina, Kip Pardue, David Krumholtz, Harry Belafonte, Mary Elizabeth Winstead


 
Bobby (2006)
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Movie Review by Jeff
June 24th, 2008

Taking place at the Ambassador Hotel in California the day Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, the movie Bobby, dives into the trenches of the daily lives of the hotel's workers and guests.

Emilio Esteves' star crannied cast including the likes of Anthony Hopkins, Harry Belafonte, Shia LeBouf, and Demi Moore, shows the excitement, confusion and frustration of this tumultuous time period of the late 1960's, when a spark such as Bobby Kennedy gave people much needed hope at a time when hope was greatly needed.

The story travels room to room, and life to life, on a day that starts off very exciting only to end in historical tragedy. The story of a racist kitchen manager, a cheating hotel manager, a wartime marriage and acid tripping campaign volunteers all to seem to spiral out of control to the heart wrenching climax of the night in the service entrance of the hotel.

Esteves' intertwined stories, at first, seem to be an array of discombobulation, however, as the day unravels, the stories weave together in a common tapestry taking their place in unwanted world history.

The hope, the desires, the desperation the characters feel towards Bobby Kennedy, this symbol of change, are all extinguished in a final scene which includes a voice-over narrative taken from one of Kennedy's speeches that is one of the finest final sequences ever produced.

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