Bobby

R

Released Nov 23, 2006

1 hr. 59 min.

History

Drama

List

47%

175 Reviews

Tomatometer

72%

25,000+ Ratings

Audience Score

In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman (Anthony Hopkins), hotel manager (William H. Macy), lounge singer (Demi Moore), busboy (Freddy Rodriguez), beautician (Sharon Stone) and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

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Critics Consensus

Despite best intentions from director Emilio Estevez and his ensemble cast, they succumb to a script filled with pointless subplots and awkward moments working too hard to parallel contemporary times.

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jon r

I've been wanting to see this film for 15 years. I wish I'd have seen it sooner. Very good performances by an exemplary cast. Interesting, entertaining and worth watching. IMDB TV has it right now for free. Do yourself a favor.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

An important history lesson; entertaining, engaging; moving and human. Essential viewing.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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s r

Manipulative. Great cast, but it was all politics.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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steve d

Some of it works, some of it doesn't. The acting is great, but it should have focused on Bobby himself.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

This film was terrible.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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Audience Member

Really boring. Not at all what I thought it was going to be.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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Emilio Estevez

Director

Anthony Hopkins

John Casey

Harry Belafonte

Nelson

William H. Macy

Paul

Sharon Stone

Miriam

Christian Slater

Timmons

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Melissa Anderson

Time Out

Rated: 1/6

Feb 3, 2007

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Mark Kermode

BBC Radio Five Live

Quite apart from the fact that it's spectacularly uninventive and uncontroversial, it's just such a luvvie-fest.

Jan 29, 2007

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Derek Malcolm

London Evening Standard

Using his haunting elegy for Martin Luther King over the final scene, Estevez makes most of what's gone before seem entertaining enough but fairly trivial. This is not, after all, Grand Hotel.

Rated: 3/5

Jan 26, 2007

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Richard Crouse

Richard Crouse

Cinematic greatness might not be evident, Bobby's message of peace and justice shines through.

Rated: 2.5/5

Jan 31, 2021

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Micheal Compton

Bowling Green Daily News

It's kind of a soapbox approach, but it actually works -- making Bobby just good enough to be worth a look, even if it could have been so much more.

Nov 20, 2019

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Debbie Lynn Elias

Behind The Lens

With BOBBY, Emilio Estevez reminds us that there was -- and still is -- hope of better things to come.

Nov 7, 2019

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Synopsis

In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman (Anthony Hopkins), hotel manager (William H. Macy), lounge singer (Demi Moore), busboy (Freddy Rodriguez), beautician (Sharon Stone) and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

Director: Emilio Estevez
Executive Producer: Daniel Grodnik, Gary Michael Walters
Screenwriter: Emilio Estevez
Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Co: Bold Films
Rating: R (Drug Content|A Scene of Violence|Language)
Genre: History, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 23, 2006, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $11.2M
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital