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Mood:
- ContemplativeCaptivating
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Plot:
- Tragic HeroPoliticsPolitical UnrestDishonestyLove and RomanceMediaSocietyState Affairs more...
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Genres:
- DramaHistoricalPeriod
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century60sVietnam War
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Place:
- CaliforniaLos AngelesUSAHotel
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Praise:
- Award Winner
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- All Star CastEnsemble Cast
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Based on:
- Based on True Story
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- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Bobby, 2006
English, Spanish
USA
Profile of Bobby
The mood of Bobby is contemplative and captivating. The plot centers around a tragic hero, media, and political unrest. It is a drama, period, and historical movie. Stylistically, Bobby features an all-star cast and stars an ensemble cast. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. Bobby takes place, at least partly, in a hotel. The setting is Los Angeles. It happens during the Vietnam War and in the 1960s. Bobby is originally a true story. The movie is known for being an award winner. Note that it includes drugs/alcohol, profanity, and violent content.
Summary of Bobby
An ambitious labor of love from writer/director/star Emilio Estevez, Bobby attempts to distill the hope, anger, and confusion that gripped the U.S. in the late 1960s. With the civil rights movement still reeling from the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the country embroiled in the confusion of Vietnam, Senator Robert F. Kennedy's campaign preached a message of peace and tolerance. In a style similar to the sprawling works of Robert Altman or Paul Thomas Anderson, Estevez uses the June 4th, 1969, assassination of Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles as the means to take a snapshot of the problems facing the country as the 1960's came to an end.
The hotel is a microcosm of class and race, with characters bouncing off each other until the violent conclusion. African-American head chef Edward (Laurence Fishburne) presides over a kitchen staffed primarily by Mexican Americans who are the victims of the racist restaurant manager, Timmons (Christian Slater). Timmons is reprimanded by hotel manager Paul Ebbers (William H. Macy), who is having an affair with a switchboard operator (Heather Graham) behind the back of his beautician wife (Sharon Stone). Meanwhile, a young Diane (Lindsay Lohan) prepares to marry her classmate, William (Elijah Wood), in order to save him from going to Vietnam, and two collegiate campaigners for Senator Kennedy remove their ties to take their first LSD trip, courtesy of a resident hippie drug dealer (Ashton Kutcher). Though the sheer volume of characters--and celebrities portraying them--is often overwhelming, Estevez is deft at making each plot thread convincing and involving. Though Bobby is not a biopic and will in no way be mistaken for the definitive statement on the man or his life and times, it is thoroughly adept at distilling both his message and the time in which he fought to deliver it.
Details
| Language: | English, Spanish |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 1 November 2006 |
| Runtime: | 120 min |
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