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Bob Roberts (1992) -- A corrupt rightwing folksinger runs a crooked election campaign while only one independent muck-raking reporter is trying to stop him.
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Tim Robbins (written by)
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Release Date:
4 September 1992 (USA) more
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More amazing than Watergate. more
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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
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Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 3 wins more
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(2 articles)
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Eerily prophetic more (88 total)

Cast

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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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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. more
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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." more
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Lukas Hart III: Excuse me, I have to go pray. more
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28 out of 40 people found the following comment useful.
Eerily prophetic, 18 July 2000
Author: heckles from St. Albans, VT

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.



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