Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Steineded How sad is this?

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Python Hyena Bobby (2006): Dir: Emilio Estevez / Cast: William H. Macy, Demi Moore, Christian Slater, Anthony Hopkins, Lindsay Lohan: Intriguing ensemble drama regarding the events occurring during the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy in June of 1968. While the election is in full throttle a hotel prepares for the arrival of the Senator and the screenplay examines and explores various individuals involved. Emilio Estevez handles the difficult material evenly and is backed with a fantastic ensemble cast. William H. Macy plays the hotel manager in the midst of an affair. Christian Slater plays the head of kitchen staff who is fired for refusing a Mexican off time to vote. Demi Moore plays a drunken singer haunted with the reality of getting older. Anthony Hopkins plays a retired host who has seen it all during his long career but he sees the hotel as home. Lindsay Lohan is even given a great dramatic stretch as one of the hotel visitors. There is footage of Kennedy himself and his message of hope that was dispatched. However, this is not about Kennedy but about the people at the hotel during the event and how it effected them and seemingly brought them all together under one tragic moment. Despite their individual traumas the film stresses that it was the big picture around them that would haunted newspapers and embed our memories. Score: 10 / 10

Robert Thompson Let me just preface this by saying I have never written a review for a movie on IMDb, and now I'm writing one for a movie that is six years old. That is how much Bobby, the man and the film, affected me.The only reason I decided to watch Bobby is because I have been researching and writing a book about my grandfather Robert E. Thompson, a Washington newsman. He was good friends with both Jack and Bobby Kennedy. So much so that Jack Kennedy made Pops his press secretary in 1958 when he ran for reelection to the Senate - two years before he became President - and in 1962 my grandfather, who had watched Bobby Kennedy's career flourish since they met in 1956 and was enamored by the man, published the first biography about him entitled 'Robert F. Kennedy: The Brother Within'. A year later he also witnessed the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald.In writing my book I became overly familiar with the lives of not just both Kennedy's but the entire family and in many respects, in the process of so much scholarly research, I had stopped thinking about the emotional resonance of their message - especially Bobby's, the last hope. It's not something I realized until I watched this film. I wont get into the nonsensical elements of the plot except to say that what at first seemed unnecessary became forgotten in the emotional weight of the last 15 minutes.To watch the man campaign, watch the hope of America brighten after Vietnam, Civil Rights and MLK's murder and then to see it all come crashing down in one moment with the music tugging at the appropriate heart strings and the added knowledge that my grandfather had seen something in the man long before many others had was too much for me, I have never cried because of a movie but I can honestly say I was moved to tears. There is a book about him appropriately titled The Last Campaign. He really was our last hope, at least in that era. Instead of the hope for America we got angry little Tricky Dick Nixon, Republican cronyism and the haunting legacy of Watergate. Needless to say in this era of so-called leaders like Newt Gingrich it is important to keep the message alive that Kennedy and King and others were trying to spread, a message of love. Especially as we live through the fiftieth anniversary of Jack Kennedy's Presidency. And in its own way this film does just that, I only wish I had seen it six years ago. Absolutely powerful.

moonspinner55 Writer-director-co-star Emilio Estevez takes a tragic, emotional event in American history--the June 5th, 1968 assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy by Sirhan Sirhan--and attempts to build a kaleidoscope of stories around it, giving personalities to the faces in the crowd that fateful night at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel. Curiously, Estevez chose not to focus on Kennedy (who is represented by newsreel footage), nor on Sirhan Sirhan, but on fictional (or fictionalized) characters such as a young couple marrying to keep the husband out of Vietnam; two young campaign workers who drop acid and spend the entire day goofing off; a Hispanic busboy at the hotel, fighting for equality and hoping to get the night off to see the Dodgers play; a beautician whose husband is cheating on her; and so on. With such a horrible tragedy looming over the third act of the picture, it's rather difficult to care about what color shoes Helen Hunt wears, or whether Lindsay Lohan's parents will turn up at her ceremony. Estevez has his heart in the right place (and his visual eye is impressive), but the screenplay is shallow and turgid, laughably underlined with a kind of political correctness which is supposed to make the picture seem relevant but is instead anachronistic. Star-studded cast generally fails to make an impression, though again this is the fault of the writing. ** from ****

freemantle_uk Emilio Estevez is properly the lesser known member of Sheen family, even though he starred in The Breakfast Club and the Mighty Ducks. However whilst a talented actor he is also a writer and director and with Bobby he assembled an assemble cast including Anthony Hopkins, William H. Macy, Martin Sheen, Elijah Wood, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Lindsay Lohan, Sharon Stone et al.Bobby is set on the day of the California Primacy in 1968, with Senator Robert Kennedy on the edge of being elected to be the Democratic Presidential Candidate. America is going through a period of social upheaval: the country is in an unpopular war in Vietnam, the civil rights movement is in full swing and drugs culture is growing. At the Ambassador Hotel in Los Andreas Estevez explores these issues of the 60s in a microcosmic of the world. There is a young couple played by Wood and Lohan who are marrying so that he can avoid being sent to Vietnam, a Latino busboy Jose (Freddy Rodriguez) who is an example of America's growing immigrant population, the Hotel Manager played by Macy who sees himself as a great liberal supporter of RFK but his attitude towards women is not so enlightened, the kitchen manager (Slater) who has racist attitudes towards Mexicans and two campaign workers (LaBeouf and Brian Geraghty) skipping knocking on doors to take some powerful LSD.Estevez makes a bold film about the 60s, and does a good job judging all the themes and characters in the film. He has a keen eye for direction, getting the look of the 60s about right, with good cinematography and fine camera movements. There is a good soundtrack of 60s songs and he does try and be ambitious playing the song Initials (from Hair) when the campaign workers are stoned and see imagines of Vietnam. This is a film about the 60s, a period of turmoil and even though there are political issues like racisms this is film is more a social piece then a political film. There are some parallels to more contemporary issues like American treatment of Latino immigrants and how there are discriminated against, particularly because of the recent laws passed in Arizona whilst doing the jobs no one else wants, African American still live in in-povertised areas and also discriminated against and America involved in a popular war. Kennedy offers hope but Estevez only shows him in achieve footage or out of focus: he was not a main player in the film.There is a great cast and good acting throughout. But a problem with the film is that there are so many characters that not all of theme are developed and not many of them are well developed. There were characters that could have been easily cut, like Sheen and Helen Hunt's characters who add nothing to the film and should have cut (and the two did their best and I like Sheen as an actor). The same can be said about Anthony Hopkins who was a real weak link in the film. Estevez needed to streamline his acting and directing.Overall an ambitious film that is underrated.