Bob Roberts
Summary:
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 prid... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Tim Robbins - (Bob Roberts)
Giancarlo Esposito - (Bugs Raplin)
Alan Rickman - (Lukas Hart III)
Ray Wise - (Chet MacGregor)
Brian Doyle-Murray - (Terry Manchester)
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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 #... Continue >>
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