Bobby. Emilio Estevez, Laurence Fishburne, Anthony
Hopkins, Helen Hunt, Ashton Kutcher, William H. Macy, Lindsay
Lohan, and Demi Moore star in a film written and directed by
Estevez.
Reviewed by Molly Freedenberg
Every movie has a purpose: to entertain, to
give information, to persuade, or to inspire action, to name a few.
And Bobby fulfills its purpose brilliantly — once you figure out
what that purpose is: to give context to RFK’s assassination, what
he represented, and why his death was so tragic; but even more
importantly, to evoke in the viewer the emotional impact of this
historic event.
In fact, the film isn’t really about Bobby Kennedy at all,
except in an abstract way. (His only appearance in the film is
through actual newsreels — no actor plays Bobby.) Instead, it
centers on the people at the Ambassador Hotel the night Kennedy was
assassinated.