Bob Roberts (1992)

Regisseur:

Tim Robbins

Drehbuchautor:

Tim Robbins (written by)

Premierendatum:

4. September 1992 (USA)

Genre:

Komödie

Werbezeile:

More amazing than Watergate.

Plot:

A corrupt rightwing folksinger runs a crooked election campaign while only one independent muck-raking reporter is trying to stop him.

Plot Keywords:

Campaign Bus | Vulgarity | Rock Concert | Senate | Pennsylvania

Filmpreise:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 3 wins

Nutzerkommentare:

Eerily prophetic

Besetzung

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 J. 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

Länge:

102 Min

Produktionsland:

USA | UK

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Technicolor)

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Dolby

Altersfreigabe:

Finland:K-18 (2004) (self applied) | Australia:M | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Germany:12 | Spain:13 | UK:15 | USA:R | Singapore:PG | Iceland:L

Drehorte:

Eisenhower Auditorium, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, USA

Firma:

Miramax Films

Dies und das:

The idea for the film originated from a sketch on "Saturday Night Live" (1975).

Pannen:

Geographische Fehler: In a scene where Bob gets off the bus in "Harrisburg" a police barrier clearly says "City of Philadelphia."

Dialogzitate:

Bob Roberts: The times they are a-changin' back.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in "HBO First Look: 'The Contender': The Making of a Political Thriller (#7.17)" (2000)

Soundtrack:

Retake America

Eerily prophetic

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.