“Bobby” is a fictionalized account of the hours leading up to the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968. Although director-screenwriter Emilio Estevez (“The War at Home” 1996) surely had good intentions in this memorial to Kennedy, the story delved into the minutiae of characters’ lives, resulting in endless subplots that bogged down the film. The overuse of celebrities in the cast also created an overly melodramatic look at a national (and for the Kennedy family, a personal) tragedy.
The cast includes Anthony Hopkins, Martin Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Christian Slater, Sharon Stone, Elijah Wood, Freddy Rodriguez, Harry Belafonte, Nick Cannon, Emilio Estevez, Laurence Fishburne, Ashton Kutcher, Shia LeBeouf, William H. Macy, Demi Moore, and Helen Hunt as Samantha Stevens. “Bobby” barely broke even at the box office for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and The Weinstein Company.
Bobby (2006)
cinema
My Review
“Bobby” is a fictionalized account of the hours leading up to the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968. Although director-screenwriter Emilio Estevez (“The War at Home” 1996) surely had good intentions in this memorial to Kennedy, the story delved into the minutiae of characters’ lives, resulting in endless subplots that bogged down the film. The overuse of celebrities in the cast also created an overly melodramatic look at a national (and for the Kennedy family, a personal) tragedy.
The cast includes Anthony Hopkins, Martin Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Christian Slater, Sharon Stone, Elijah Wood, Freddy Rodriguez, Harry Belafonte, Nick Cannon, Emilio Estevez, Laurence Fishburne, Ashton Kutcher, Shia LeBeouf, William H. Macy, Demi Moore, and Helen Hunt as Samantha Stevens. “Bobby” barely broke even at the box office for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and The Weinstein Company.