Bob Roberts - Region 1 DVD
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Too true to be truly funny.
17 years, 6 months ago at Oct 10 14:46
This is *not* a faux-documentary in the spirit of Christopher Guest. "Bob Roberts" is biting satire... a little too biting, in fact. Watching the film I found myself far more depressed than amused as I realized I wasn't staring at a funhouse mirror image of reality, but that reality itself has gone through the looking glass, to borrow a phrase. The only real joke in the movie is that Bob Robert... read more
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Written and directed by actor Tim Robbins (who also plays the title role), this 1992 mock documentary about an upstart candidate for the U.S. Senate is smart, funny, and scarily prescient in its foreshadowing of the Republican revolution of 1994. Bob Roberts is a folksinger with a difference: He offers tunes that protest welfare chiselers, liberal whining, and the like. As the filmmakers follow his campaign, Robbins gives needle-sharp insight into the way candidates manipulate the media. While the film follows Roberts's campaign, it also covers a fringe journalist (Giancarlo Esposito), who may have dug up the kind of
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Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Release date: 14 August 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0012236114888 UPC: 012236114888
Release date: 14 August 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0012236114888 UPC: 012236114888
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