Bob Roberts Rating: Release Date: 17 October, 2000 Retail Price: $24.98 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Tim Robbins James Spader Helen Hunt Alan Rickman Complete Cast (18 total)

Bob Roberts Reviews

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Bob Roberts: Maybe Even More Relevant Fourteen Years Later?
Bob Roberts is as relevant today as it was some fourteen years ago. Converting ideological outsiders does not seem to be its primary goal. It is echo chamber entertainment meant only for the already committed leftist. Needless to point out, this is not exactly surprising. Tim Robbins, after all, who starred, directed, and even sang in the film is one of Hollywood's best know radical personalities. To be blunt, he is a less talented Oliver Stone. The script turns conservatives into cartoon characters. There is no attempt whatsoever to try understanding their world view. They are simplistically portrayed as fascists seeking any excuse to justify taking over the country. Bob Roberts (Tim Robbins) is a Republican U.S. senatorial candidate hoping to defeat incumbent Pennsylvanian Democrat Brickley Paiste (Gore Vidal). He is vile and not above using dirty tricks to achieve his aims. As the story unfolds, Roberts is well behind in the polls. A leftist journalist portrayed by Giancarlo Esposito tries to further derail Roberts' campaign by revealing his drug running and other criminal activities. Will he be successful? Can a journalist representing a small left-wing publication take down the rich and powerful? You will not be glued to your seat due to the suspense, but the story line isn't a complete bore. If nothing else, you will see countless well known motion picture stars come and go throughout the story.

Did you ever wonder why the far-left became unglued over the Iraqi liberation of 2003? Well, Bob Roberts should help enlighten you. It makes numerous references to Desert Storm, our first invasion of Iraq in 1991. The conflict was allegedly a conspiracy concocted by the devious right-wing "National Security Council." This group really runs the country, and not our elected leaders. The Republican administration of George Bush 41 only wanted to dominate the region. Our greedy military-industrial complex had to be satisfied, and would not take no for an answer. Saddam Hussein was not another Adolph Hitler---but a minor league dictator. Senator Brickley Paiste dismisses him as merely another member of "the villain of the month club."

David Thomson
Flares into Darkness

A TOO TRUE BLUEPRINT FOR THE ROVE/BUSH CAMPAIGN TRAIL
watch this film and be afraid
very
very
afraid

This is where we are now

THe parody of the Reagan staged "shooting" is incredible and bold, the send up of the phoney "leftist" nature of Saturday Night Live is right on target, the rest is just plain scary it is so, so true.

even the manipulation of GOd and religion for anti-religious and uncharitable politics of greed . . . this we see today.

THe reference ot his sheep-bots as his soldiers, ready to die in a war for oil . . .

Bob Roberts is a prophet. Also get his EMbedded. And Bulworth.

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