RFK (2002) (TV)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Robert Dornhelm

Writer (WGA):

Hank Steinberg (written by)

Release Date:

25 August 2002 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

Dreamer. Rebel. Leader. Brother.

Plot:

Following the death of his brother John, Robert Kennedy is forced to rise to the challenge of leading his country and carrying on his brother's vision of what America could be. |

Plot Keywords:

Harlem | 1960s | Watts Riot | Character Name In Title

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe.

Cast

Linus Roache	...	Robert F. Kennedy
James Cromwell	...	President Lyndon Baines Johnson
David Paymer	...	Dick Goodwin
Martin Donovan	...	John F. Kennedy
Ving Rhames	...	Judge Jones
Sean Gregory Sullivan	...	Steve Smith (as Sean Sullivan)
Sergio Di Zio	...	Adam Walinsky
Marnie McPhail	...	Ethel Kennedy
Jacob Vargas	...	Cesar Chavez
Judith Goodwin	...	Evelyn Lincoln
Dwight McFee	...	Painter
Phil Craig	...	John McCone
David Gardner	...	Joe Kennedy, Sr.
Corinne Conley	...	Rose Kennedy
Kevin Hare	...	Ted Kennedy

Also Known As:

Little Brother (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

Brazil:94 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Filming Locations:

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Soundtrack:

It's All Right

Another side of RFK....

First things first, I'm glad to see another movie that takes place in America that was totally filmed in Canada! Second, RFK should be the last film about RFK that the world should have to see for the next 20 years. We saw a side of RFK in the movie Hoffa. We saw another side of RFK in the HBO movie on the RAT PACK. And we've seen a handful of RFK sides in all those movies made on the Bay of Pigs and Cuba crisis and the others like it. Now, all that is left to make on RFK is the side of him that only RFK knew. The inner man, caught up with his own identity and the man that stood in the shadows of his brother JFK. It was good to see this kind of movie be made, then again, it doesn't do anything for the RFK genre which died years ago. Consider this movie the final nail in the RFK movie coffin. It's sad to say that a movie like this would not have been made in 1970, a few years after his death. Only now, when he and everybody close to him is now dead, does the American public get to see a movie showing these sides of the man's life. That's why Primary Colors is so credited since it was so much about Bill Clinton's legacy and it was filmed and shown during Clinton's administration.