Bobby

"He saw wrong and tried to right it. He saw suffering and tried to heal it. He saw war and tried to stop it."

2006 2h 0m EN

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6.4

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★6.4TMDB · 435

Drama

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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.

“He saw wrong and tried to right it. He saw suffering and tried to heal it. He saw war and tried to stop it.”

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Cast

Anthony Hopkins
John Casey
William H. Macy
Paul Ebbers
Harry Belafonte
Nelson
Freddy Rodríguez
José Rojas
Laurence Fishburne
Edward Robinson
Heather Graham
Angela
Lindsay Lohan
Diane
Shia LaBeouf
Cooper

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Emilio Estevez
Writers: Emilio Estevez
Languages: English, German, Spanish
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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Released 20 years ago.

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2 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 3 languages: English, German, Spanish.

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3 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Emilio Estevez, shot by Michael Barrett. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Mark Isham. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Richard Chew shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Anthony Hopkins and William H. Macy and Harry Belafonte carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "He saw wrong and tried to right it. He saw suffering and tried to heal it. He saw war and tried to stop it.".

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0308055 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Emilio Estevez directs. Michael Barrett behind the camera. Mark Isham scores. Richard Chew cuts. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, German, Spanish.

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1Released 20 years ago.
2Dialogue crosses 3 languages: English, German, Spanish.
3Directed by Emilio Estevez, shot by Michael Barrett. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Mark Isham. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Richard Chew shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Anthony Hopkins and William H. Macy and Harry Belafonte carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "He saw wrong and tried to right it. He saw suffering and tried to heal it. He saw war and tried to stop it.".
8IMDB entry: tt0308055 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Michael Barrett
Original score: Mark Isham
Editing: Richard Chew
Production design: Patti Podesta
Costume design: Julie Weiss
Makeup / hair: Melissa Yonkey
Runtime: 120 min · 2h 0m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Bobby (2006)

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CinemaSerf2025-01-22
★ 6/10
Well I don't know quite was I was expecting, but this half-baked version of "Grand Hotel" - the television series rather than the classy 1932 film - certainly wasn't it. Indeed it has precious little to do with the titular politician, but more those people either attached to the early stages of his primary nomination campaign or to the legendary Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles. The constant is it's general manager John Casey (Sir Anthony Hopkins) who has met and greeted many of the great and the good over the years and who is passing his day with his friend "Nelson" (Harry Belafonte) awaiting the arrival of Senator Kennedy. Then there's "Ebbers" (William H.Macy) who's just had a run in with his catering manager "Simmons" (Christian Slater); a persistent Czech journalist trying to convince everyone she's not from a communist dictatorship; a couple of gents who just want to go join Ashton Kutcher and get stoned and some (il/legal) kitchen staff paranoid - with good reason - about being fired. There are also a couple of soapy sub-plots asking who's having an affair with whom and the whole thing is interspersed with some actuality of the night's real-time political events as if to give it some weight. Sadly, though, despite it's pretty stellar cast the whole thing just doesn't knit in anything like an interesting enough fashion. It's as if Emilio Estevez determined to get as many of his friends and family (and their friends and family) to take part in a Democrat fundraising movie peppered with some rousing dogma from the archives. It's over-scripted, pace-less and there are way too many distractions to make this anything compelling to watch. Shia LaBeouf at least looked like he enjoyed his part as the acid tripping "Cooper" but otherwise this borders on the earnest and frankly, the dull. Perhaps if it'd been called "Bobby's Hotel" then I might not have been so disappointed, but it wasn't and I was. Sorry.

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