Bobby (2006)
Directed by Emilio Estevez
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
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The hotel's manager (William H. Macy, "Edmond," "Thank You for Smoking") is a Bobby follower who forces Timmons to give his staff time off to vote before firing him, but the beloved boss is also cheating on his wife Miriam (Sharon Stone, "Basic Instinct 2"), the hotel's hair stylist, with a switchboard operator (Heather Graham, "The Guru") - Estevez's awkward attempt at a Kennedy stand-in, perhaps?
The obvious comparison is Emilio Estevez’s Bobby (2006), which similarly observed a cross-section of ‘60s America on the eve of RFK’s assassination.
There are fortunately a handful of strong moments and show-stopping set-pieces, but these are the exceptions rather than the rule in a film that is exhausting in all the wrong ways.Following a pre-titles prologue depicting the overtaking of the dwarves' treasure-filled home in the Lonely Mountains by dragon Smaug, and a second prologue set moments before " The Fellowship of the Ring " began, reintroducing Ian Holm (2005's " Lord of War ") and Elijah Wood (2006's " Bobby ") as the older Bilbo Baggins and impressionable young Frodo, the story proper finally gets underway.