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Writer:
Tim Robbins (written by)
Release Date:
4 September 1992 (USA)
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Tagline:
More amazing than Watergate. more
Plot:
A corrupt rightwing folksinger runs a crooked election campaign while only one independent muck-raking reporter is trying to stop him. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe.
Another 3 wins
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Eerily prophetic
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Tim Robbins | ... | Bob Roberts |
 | Giancarlo Esposito | ... | Bugs Raplin |
 | Alan Rickman | ... | Lukas Hart III |
| Ray Wise | ... | Chet MacGregor |
| Brian Murray | ... | Terry Manchester |
| Gore Vidal | ... | Senator Brickley Paiste |
| Rebecca Jenkins | ... | Delores Perrigrew |
 | Harry Lennix | ... | Franklin Dockett |
| John Ottavino | ... | Clark Anderson |
 | Robert Stanton | ... | Bart Macklerooney |
| Kelly Willis | ... | Clarissa Flan |
| Merrilee Dale | ... | Polly Roberts |
| Tom Atkins | ... | Dr. Caleb Menck |
 | David Strathairn | ... | Mack Laflin |
 | James Spader | ... | Chuck Marlin |
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102 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Canada:PG (Ontario) |
Finland:K-18 (2004) (self applied) |
Australia:M |
Germany:12 |
Spain:13 |
UK:15 |
USA:R |
Singapore:PG |
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The "Cutting Edge Live" TV show segment is shot at WQED's studio in Pittsburgh, home of "MisteRogers' Neighborhood" (1968). King Friday's castle can be seen in the background as the production assistant storms across the soundstage to cut the power. When Fred Rogers was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award for Daytime Television in 1997, Tim Robbins was the presenter.
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Errors in geography: In a scene where Bob gets off the bus in "Harrisburg" a police barrier clearly says "City of Philadelphia."
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Quotes:
Lukas Hart III:
Excuse me, I have to go pray.
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Movie Connections:
Spoofed in "The Simpsons: Sideshow Bob Roberts (#6.5)" (1994)
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Wall Street Rap
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I am surprised that no one in this comments index noticed how true-to-life this film turned out to be.
"Bob Roberts" was a 1992 'mock-umentry' about the election of a Republican know-nothing (the title character) to a U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania; in the movie Roberts wins against a too-brainy-to win Democrat played by Gore Vidal. The real 1994 U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania featured Rick Santorum as the Republican candidate. Santorum not only had the same aggressively anti-intellectual outlook as Roberts (I understand his staff is afraid to leave him alone with the press lest he 'throw a brick'), he even used generous helpings of Roberts' faux-revolutionary rhetoric to claim that his election would be an empowerment of the common people of Pennsylvania against a murkily-described 'elite'. In fact, Santorum, like Roberts, was a front man for an economic interest - to wit, the health insurance industry - who bankrolled 95% of his lavish campaign and which was eager to replace his rival, Harris Wolford, who was an advocate for universal health coverage. Like the Vidal character, Wolford was disadvantaged by being a genuinely concerned person whose detailed worldview found it hard to stand effectively against the style of Santorum/Roberts.
Guess who represents our state today.