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Bob Roberts

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Bob Roberts
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R,1hr 45min
Genre:
Comedy
Released:
September 1, 1992
Director:
Tim Robbins
Distributor:
Paramount
Starring:
Tim Robbins, Giancarlo Esposito, Alan Rickman  ...more
Synopsis: In the tradition of This Is Spinal Tap, producer/ director/ star Tim Robbins' Bob Roberts is a satire disguised as a documentary. Robbins plays the titular Roberts, a wealthy, well-connected young man running for a senatorial seat in Pennsylvania. On the surface, Roberts is an ingratiating glad-hander, a sincere believer in the restoration of such intangibles as national pride, family values, etc. But the longer Roberts is followed about by documentary filmmaker Brian Murray, the more we become aware ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Betzold, AMG Review
Released just before the start of the Clinton presidency, Bob Roberts was a prescient pseudo-documentary take on the corruption of American politics by the media-savvy celebrity culture. As the second-term Clinton scandals broke, Wag the Dog, Primary Colors, and Bulworth took art-imitating-current-events irony even further, but Bob Roberts paved the way. The first writing/directing effort of actor ... Full Review
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Tim Robbins
Bob Roberts
Giancarlo Esposito
Bugs Raplin
Alan Rickman
Lukas Hart III
Ray Wise
Chet MacGregor
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