Bobby (Widescreen Edtion) | 
| Director: Emilio Estevez
Actors: Demi Moore, Anthony Hopkins, Lawrence Fishburne, Lindsay Lohan, Elijah Wood
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Category: DVD
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Rating:  60 reviews
Sales Rank: 13375
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Published)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 119 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: WEID79932D
UPC: 796019799324
EAN: 0796019799324
ASIN: B000MEYJI8
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: April 10, 2007
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Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 06/17/2008 Run time: 117 minutes Rating: R
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 One of best films I have seen July 2, 2009
E. Erenler (New Jersey)
I am surprized that most professional movie critics did not give this film higher ratings. Most of these critics take shortcuts. They watch the first half hour of the film, then go accross the street to have a drink or two, then come back for the last half hour of the film. You need to sit through this whole movie in its entirity in order to truly appreciate it. An unheard of 24 (or so) characters are protrayed in the film. No way can you understand all the characters by just watching the first and last half hours of the film.
BO BBY May 25, 2009
Msmoninabmata
Bobby is a good film to watch, it stimulates your imagination. It shows a lot of life going on at the same time. While during the time that Bobby was campaigning, a lot of subplots was going on. The life of the entertainer-played by Demi and the the role of her manager husband as well. It shows the intricacy of how it is to live a life in politics as well as the life in show business. It affects the hotel industry and the the different people involved in that industry. In sum, Bobby is a story that's not have a happy ending but a story of what have been- if...
 "Brothers and Countrymen..." March 24, 2009
Deborah Earle (USA)
Interspersed with actual footage of the turbulent 60s, Emilio Estevez presents his take on the fateful events in Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel in June 1968.
After an introductory scene of a hotel fire drill, we are led through a series of fictional vignettes about hotel workers and patrons, including two young campaign workers(Shia LeBoef, Brian Geraghty)
who enjoy chats in a diner with a pretty waitress and aspiring actress named Susan Taylor(Mary Elizabeth Winstead), but who shirk their campaign duties to drop acid with a hippie named Fisher(Ashton Kutcher), and a journalist from Czeckoslovakia(Svetlana Metkina) craving an interview with Senator Kennedy (David Fraunces), despite campaign manager Wade Buckley's(Joshua Jackson)objections.
Lawrence Fishburne plays chief kitchen staff member Edward Robinson, who encourages the potential of Latino bus boy, Jose Rojas(Freddy Rodriguez)amid bickering with bus boy Miguel ( Jacob Vargas), and Christian Slater's supervisor, Daryl Timmons is fired by Paul Ebbers(William H. Macy) for refusal allow the kitchen staff time off from work to vote.
Timmons retaliates by revealing Ebbers' extramarital fling with switchboard operator, Angela (Heather Graham)to Ebber's wife, Miriam (Sharon Stone), a beautician whose clientele include washed-up chanteuse, Virginia Fallon (Demi Moore), slated to introduce Senator Kennedy if she can stay sober, and a young bride-to-be named Diane(Lindsay Lohan), who is marrying her High School sweetheart, William Avery (Elijah Wood)to shield him from the Vietnam War draft. A certain irony would later emerge from that scenario.
Harry Belafonte and Anthony Hopkins play Nelson and John Casey, a retired hotel employee and doorman respectively, who enjoy games of chess together.
Nick Cannon's activist Dwayne, is a young man who views RFK as America's last great hope, and has pleasant but also sobering exchanges with switchboard girl, Patricia(Joy Bryant),encouraging her to view her existance in society as more than just marginal.
Martin Sheen and Helen Hunt play Jack and Samantha, a high-powered couple dealing with his depression and her materialism.
Estevez himself appears as Virginia Fallon's long-suffering husband, Tim, and David Krumholtz is her long-suffering agent, Phil.
In due time, all their stories are tied by a common thread during Sirhan Sirhan's (David Kobzantsev) climatic firing of a fatal round in the hotel kitchen, destroying hope, destroying lives, and devastating a sense of idealism for many.
We hear the Senator's condemnation of violence, prejudice, and fear as the wounded lay in need of assistance, and the last icon of 60s idealism is removed from our midsts forever.
The chaotic scene beneath an American flag at the hotel entrance says it all. It will be up to the shattered, scattered and confused left milling about as an ambulance drives off to pick up the banner, to bind a nation's wounds, and to make the American people brothers and countrymen again.
Good movie for old RFK fans March 7, 2009
Lawrence J. Bracken (Gulf Breeze, Florida USA)
Not the greatest movie, but excellent acting and a treat for old RFK fans. Good use of actual news footage woven in with story line.
Still a Raw Nerve, an Unhealed Wound December 24, 2008
David S. Jenkins (On the Road)
I avoided this film for two years not just because I assumed it would fail to live up to the importance of it's topic, but because that topic is still difficult for me to deal with. The story takes place just a week past my 16th birthday, but for me (and almost everyone of my age that I know,) it's as though Bobby was shot last night. When I see footage from the Ambassador ballroom, or when I see film of the funeral train... the tears quickly well up. Four decades later, I choke up.
In reading the many Amazon pages of reviews for this film, you can get a feel for the age of the author. I wouldn't expect anyone under the age of perhaps 12 at the time (or not yet born) to react the same way to this film as those of us who remember the night in vivid detail. And to those too young to really feel this film as we older folks do, three quick points...
One, many reviewers don't like the fact that there are so many seemingly unrelated personal stories woven together into this film. I understand the complaint, it's the "Nashville" syndrome and I'm no Robert Altman fan.
But it makes absolute sense here to show a dozen or so simultaneous tales leading to a common conclusion - because it drives home the fact that Bobby's campaign spoke so eloquently and intimately to such a wide range of social classes and demographics, and that his death shattered them equally. On the day after Bobby finally passed away in his hospital bed, I remember noticing that even Republicans, even conservatives, even those that supported the war, even "grown-ups" and my high school teachers were just stunned with shock by what had happened... that there was a fog of unreality and disbelief that people seemed to wander through aimlessly for a few days...
Second point - there's a small scene after Booby is shot where a young man throws a chair against a lobby wall. This rings true (as does everything in the final twenty minutes of the film) as it hints at what was to come, the rage we all felt, the fury, the visceral disgust at our government for continuing an obscene and pointless war, the inconsolable pain and the desire for revenge that many of us had. The Weather Underground was born in the hearts of many of us that night.
Finally, in terms of Mr. Estevez' ability to draw the best out of his cast and the dedication with which they approached their roles (for this was obviously each cast member's personal tribute to Bobby...), the look on William H. Macy's face as he watches the ambulance drive away says it all. Macy, a supremely gifted actor, moves deeply in his heart to a place that most actors don't always manage to go.
If you're too young to remember that night yourself, trust me.
Look at Macy's face, watch him try to cope, to hold on, look into his eyes.
That's exactly what it felt like when we heard... that Bobby... had... been shot.
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