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Bob Roberts

R
Movie
1992
1h 42m
English
Comedy, Drama
Mock documentary about an upstart candidate for the U.S. Senate written and directed by actor Tim Robbins. Bob Roberts is a folksinger with a difference: He offers tunes that protest welfare chiselers, liberal whining, and the like. As the filmmakers follow his campaign, Robbins gives needle-sharp insight into the way candidates manipulate the media.
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83

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Tim Robbins
Bob Roberts
Ray Wise
Chet MacGregor
Alan Rickman
Lukas Hart III
Gore Vidal
Senator Brickley Paiste
Brian Murray
Terry Manchester
Rebecca Jenkins
Delores Perrigrew
Harry Lennix
Franklin Dockett
John Ottavino
Clark Anderson
Robert Stanton
Bart Macklerooney
Jack Black
Roger Davis
Shannon Holt
Rita, The Obsessed Fan
Brent Hinkley
Bif, The Patriot
Bob Balaban
Cutting Edge Producer
John Cusack
Cutting Edge Host
Peter Gallagher
Anchor, Dan Riley
Robert Hegyes
Reporter, Ernesto Galleano
Helen Hunt
Reporter, Rose Pondell
Pamela Reed
Anchor, Carol Cruise
James Spader
Anchor, Chuck Marlin
Susan Sarandon
Anchor, Tawna Titan
Fred Ward
Anchor, Chip Daley
Fisher Stevens
Reporter, Rock Bork
Directed By: Tim Robbins
Written By: Tim Robbins

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moonkodi says...
8 years ago
Very good satire. Very true. Shows how's you can use/abuse nationalism to manipulate the masses and how a non political background candidate (in this case business) can give the appearance of being the real alternative vote. Appealing to persoanl greed and making it seem fair. Trump anyone? The usual political campaign stuff like telling people what they want to hear / blatant lies. Creating a persona and all the acting and charm with that. Using scripts but turning to an exaggerated gut response when venturing from the script..it's got it all. Bob's even making money from music as he's going along. He calls a little girl that send him a card a future soldier. The American dream as a business (global domination with war) has a cost. Corruption. Hypocrisy. Information and damage control. The war machine. Shadow government. Media control. The nature of voters. It goes on. Bravo Tim Robbins. I don't find it rant or liberal propaganda. More of a story of a man.
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Spiritualized Kaos says...
2 years ago
Pretentious critique of the American political system.
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Ntvjackson says...
3 years ago
This movie is so bland. It has LONG segments of people singing folk songs just to stretch the movie out. Doesn't reach any conclusions or make a point. Really a waste of time.
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onestabby says...
12 years ago
"Bob Roberts is yet another of that faction that lives to destroy whatever good came out of the 60s, to rewrite the history of that important period. A period where the American people actually were informed and aware, and realized that they had a voice. They demanded that a war end. Bob Roberts is Nixon, only he's shrewder, more complicated, this Bob Roberts. Now here is a man who has adopted the persona and mindset of a free-thinking rebel and turned it on itself. The Rebel Conservative! That is deviant brilliance. What a Machiavellian poser." - The interviewer of Bob Roberts in an early scene... VERY TIMELY.
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AndrewBloom
CONTAINS SPOILERS8/10  4 years ago
[7.7/10] There are parts of *Bob Roberts* that feel almost scarily prescient and salient. Nearly three decades later, the idea of the conservative rebel, a well-moneyed entertainer posing as the common man and complaining about a scary “other” threatening to undo the American way of life is nigh More
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