Drama

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.

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.

Release Date : 2006-09-05

Language :EnglishGermanSpanish

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Bold FilmsHolly Wiersma Productions

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : John Casey

Original Name : Anthony Hopkins

Gender : Male

Character Name : Paul Ebbers

Original Name : William H. Macy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nelson

Original Name : Harry Belafonte

Gender : Male

Character Name : José Rojas

Original Name : Freddy Rodríguez

Gender : Male

Character Name : Edward Robinson

Original Name : Laurence Fishburne

Gender : Male

Character Name : Angela

Original Name : Heather Graham

Gender : Female

Character Name : Diane

Original Name : Lindsay Lohan

Gender : Female

Character Name : Cooper

Original Name : Shia LaBeouf

Gender : Male

Character Name : Daryl Timmons

Original Name : Christian Slater

Gender : Male

Character Name : Miriam Ebbers

Original Name : Sharon Stone

Gender : Female

Character Name : Samantha Stevens

Original Name : Helen Hunt

Gender : Female

Character Name : Tim Fallon

Original Name : Emilio Estevez

Gender : Male

Character Name : Virginia Fallon

Original Name : Demi Moore

Gender : Female

Character Name : Dwayne

Original Name : Nick Cannon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Wade

Original Name : Joshua Jackson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Miguel

Original Name : Jacob Vargas

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jimmy

Original Name : Brian Geraghty

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lenka Janáček

Original Name : Svetlana Metkina

Gender : Female

Character Name : William Avary

Original Name : Elijah Wood

Gender : Male

Character Name : Patricia

Original Name : Joy Bryant

Gender : Female

Character Name : Susan Taylor

Original Name : Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Gender : Female

Character Name : Agent Phil

Original Name : David Krumholtz

Gender : Male

Character Name : Fisher

Original Name : Ashton Kutcher

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jack Stevens

Original Name : Martin Sheen

Gender : Male

Character Name : David

Original Name : Spencer Garrett

Gender : Male

Character Name : Beatnik

Original Name : Scoot McNairy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Salesman

Original Name : Gene Borkan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sirhan Sirhan

Original Name : David Kobzantsev

Gender : Male

Character Name : Robert F. Kennedy

Original Name : Dave Fraunces

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Robert F. Kennedy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : John F. Kennedy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Ted Kennedy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Martin Luther King Jr.

Gender : Male

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2025-01-22

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.