An ambitious labor of love from writer/director/star Emilio Estevez, Bobby attempts to distill the hope, anger, and confusion that gripped the U.S. in the late 1960s. With the civil rights movement still reeling from the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the country embroiled in the confusion of Vietnam, Senator Robert F. Kennedy's campaign preached a message of peace and tolerance. In a style similar to the sprawling works of Robert Altman or Paul Thomas Anderson, Estevez uses the June 4th, 1969, assassination of Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles as the means to take a snapshot of the problems facing the country as the 1960's came to an end.
Starring: Harry Belafonte, Sharon Stone, Laurence Fishburne, Ashton Kutcher, Helen Hunt, Anthony Hopkins, Lindsay Lohan, Joshua Jackson, Shia LaBeouf, William H. Macy, Heather Graham & Demi Moore.
Release date Blu-ray disc: August 19, 2008
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