Bob Roberts

Bob Roberts

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Bob Roberts

Alan Rickman, David Strathairn, Giancarlo Esposito, Gore Vidal, Jack Black

Written and directed by actor Tim Robbins (who also plays the title role), this 1992 mock documentary about an upstart candidate for the U.S. Senate is smart, funny, and scarily prescient in its fores...( read more  read more... )hadowing of the Republican revolution of 1994. Bob Roberts is a folksinger with a difference: He offers tunes that protest welfare chiselers, liberal whining, and the like. As the filmmakers follow his campaign, Robbins gives needle-sharp insight into the way candidates manipulate the media. While the film follows Roberts's campaign, it also covers a fringe journalist (Giancarlo Esposito), who may have dug up the kind of dirt to push Roberts's campaign off the rails. Robbins captures the chilly insincerity of this right-wing populist and fills his cast with terrific supporting players, including Alan Rickman as the campaign's shadowy financier and Susan Sarandon and Peter Gallagher as a pair of airhead TV news anchors. --Marshall Fine

Id: 10906137

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  • November 17, 2009
    its ok sum parts are jokes doh
  • December 19, 2008
    At the time Robbins hadn't fine tuned his crazy liberal personality for talk shows; so I cut him some slack.
  • December 31, 2006
    Good Flick, better than average.
  • February 18, 2007
    Great songs and a funny and disturbing story. Robbins best attempt at directing, some may complain that it is too politically motivated, but I don't think Robbins was trying to conceal that fact. Some people just complain and complain and complain and complain and complain.
  • November 30, 2009
    Needed more Rickman, a lot more Rickman.
  • July 28, 2009
    Needless to say Alan Rickman was good in this film, but the story wasnt that interesting and I kept falling asleep. Maybe with more Rickman and Jack Black the movie would have been inproved.
  • December 3, 2008
    I'm not a fan of political films, but the sarcasm was right up my alley. THAT and the fact that ALAN RICKMAN delivered the goods (as always).
  • September 1, 2008
    my favorite political movie.
  • July 15, 2008
    The only reason I would check this film out is because of Alan Rickman.
  • July 9, 2008
    Clever and still timely. Not enough Rickman

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