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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.

2006 · 2h · R Drama
Directed by Emilio Estevez

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Overview

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.

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All reviews
47%
Tomatometer
Rotten

For all his good intentions, Mr. Estevez has reduced history to a bad melodrama in which nothing much happens until a crazed assassin (of whom we catch only a fleeting prior glimpse) supposedly destroys the last great hope of a liberal renaissance.

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Rotten

Ham-handed and TV-movie flat, it states the obvious, then states it again and again and again.

Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Fresh

It's this disconnect between historical reality and dramatic indulgence that keeps an otherwise worthy film from being completely satisfying. There are moments, though, where even the most hardened cynic may have to wipe away tears of regret and loss.

Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Fresh

Ultimately rises above its inadequacies; it's an earnest tribute to a time gone by, and to a symbol of hope.

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Rotten

It's a tin-eared movie, in many regards, history rewritten by that C-student who tries to jam too many footnotes into every character.

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

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