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Bob Roberts is a 1992 film written and directed by Tim Robbins. It is a satirical mockumentary, chronicling the rise of Bob Roberts, a conservative politician who is a candidate for an upcoming United States Senate election. Roberts is well financed, due mainly to past business dealings, and is well known for his music, which presents conservative ideas with gusto.
The film is Robbins' directorial debut, and is based on a short segment of the same name and featuring the same character that Robbins did for Saturday Night Live on December 13, 1986.
Bob Roberts takes place in Pennsylvania. It depicts a fictitious senatorial race between conservative folk singer, Bob Roberts (Tim Robbins) and the incumbent Democrat, Brickley Paiste (Gore Vidal). The film is shot through the perspective of Terry Manchester (Brian Murray), a British documentary filmmaker who is following the Roberts campaign. Through his lens we see Roberts travel across the state, performing songs about drug users, lazy people and the triumph of traditional family values over the rebelliousness of the 1960s. As the campaign continues, Paiste remains in the lead until a scandal arises involving him and a young woman who was seen emerging from a car with him. Paiste claims that she was a friend of his granddaughter who he was driving home, but he cannot shake the accusations.
Actors: Jim Menza (writer), Jim Menza (director), Jim Menza (producer), Jim Menza (editor), Jim Menza (actor), Tim Pilleri (producer), Tim Pilleri (actor), Kelly Walker (actress), Kelly Walker (producer), Gregory Stone (actor), Gregory Stone (producer), Mike Menza (composer), Joseph Menza (actor), Kristen Ortiz (actress), Irina Costa (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Short,Actors: Brian Cavallaro (director), Brian Cavallaro (writer), Brian Cavallaro (producer), Reggie Jernigan (actor), David Mayer (miscellaneous crew), David Mayer (producer), David Mayer (editor), Luis Jimenez (actor), Jorge Cordova (actor), Susie Goldberg (actress), Jacqueline Journey (actress), Fernando Fonseca (actor), Kareem Bandealy (actor), Matt Schwarz (actor), Kareem Bandealy (actor),
Plot: All bad things must come to an end... Time is short and the money's big for campus "hit man" Daulton Monroe. He's losing his old partner, training a new one, and falling in love with a bartender/lounge singer/journalist. During the biggest job of his career, the hunter becomes the hunted as someone attempts to manipulate his shadowy operation. Everyone's a suspect! No one has a clue! And the only place to hide is In Plain Sight.
Genres: Comedy,Actors: James Spader (actor), Tom Atkins (actor), Alan Rickman (actor), Tim Robbins (actor), Harry Lennix (actor), Jack Black (actor), Jeremy Piven (actor), Lee Arenberg (actor), John Cusack (actor), Bob Balaban (actor), Giancarlo Esposito (actor), Ned Bellamy (actor), Peter Gallagher (actor), David Strathairn (actor), Fisher Stevens (actor),
Plot: Documentary-style look at the fictional Senatorial campaign of Bob Roberts, an arch-conservative folk singer turned politician. This political satire includes several original songs co-written and performed by writer/director/star Tim Robbins, and cameo appearances by other stars as reporters and news anchors.
Keywords: 1990s, assassination-attempt, campaign-bus, campaign-manager, character-name-in-title, children, cia-agent, concert, conservative, cult-filmActors: Stanley Myers (composer), Timothy West (actor), Harry Fowler (actor), Peter Vaughan (actor), Jim Carter (actor), Larry Lamb (actor), Bill Thomas (actor), Robert Young (director), Roger Frost (actor), Pat Roach (actor), Alison Doody (actress), Derek Newark (actor), Hetty Baynes (actress), Richard Broke (producer), Thomas Wheatley (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Dennis Hopper (actor), Fisher Stevens (actor), Richard Masur (actor), Michael Berryman (actor), John Stockwell (actor), Peter Bernstein (composer), Frank Welker (actor), Dawna Lee Heising (actress), Barry Corbin (actor), Robert DoQui (actor), Raphael Sbarge (actor), Al Leong (actor), Craig Miller (miscellaneous crew), Ann Wedgeworth (actress), John Carter (actor),
Plot: Michael and Ellie break into a military junkyard to find a science project for Michael's class, and discover a strange glowing orb which absorbs electricity. When the orb begins to blend past, present, and future, its up to Michael and Ellie to stop the orb and save mankind.
Keywords: mutant, plato, prehistoric-creature, school, science, time-travelActors: William Greaves (actor), William Alexander (producer), Billie Allen (actress), Emory Richardson (actor), Powell Lindsay (director), Powell Lindsay (writer), Powell Lindsay (actor), Savannah Churchill (actress), Walter Cruter (editor), Charlie Mac Rae (actor), Jessie Walker (actor), Jimmy Wright (actor), Louise Jackson (actress), Bill Chase (actor),
Plot: Unsuccessful gambler 'Dollar Bill' Burton lives in a crummy New York basement room with old friend Bob and a new roommate, friendly blues singer 'Alabama' Lee. But, tired of being broke, Dollar Bill gets more steady employment...doing illegal errands for gangster Bad Boy George. The now prosperous Bill ignores pretty, adoring Etta and takes up with sultry singer Regina. Will Bill's way of life catch up with him? Will his upright friends be more successful in the end? All-black cast.
Keywords: african-american, black-american, harlem-manhattan-new-york-city, independent-film, manhattan-new-york-city, morality, new-york-cityActors: E.R. Hickson (miscellaneous crew), Foxy Callahan (actor), Jack Evans (actor), Al Ferguson (actor), Hoot Gibson (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Earle Hodgins (actor), Mauritz Hugo (actor), George Morrell (actor), Bud Osborne (actor), Bob Steele (actor), Dan White (actor), Lindsley Parsons (writer), Ray Curtiss (editor), John C. Fuller (editor),
Plot: Impressed by the heroics of young Bob Roberts from Utah, veteran marshal H.R. Higgins enlists his aid to try to put an end to the reign of a wily outlaw gang that's somehow been managing to walk off with the prize money at a series of rodeos, leaving the local favorites with snake bite symptoms.
Keywords: 1880s, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, alias, announcer, archive-footage, b-movie, b-western, banker, bartender, competitionActors: Kenner G. Kemp (actor), Don Beddoe (actor), Sam Ash (actor), George Anderson (actor), Stanley Brown (actor), James Craig (actor), Dick Curtis (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), John Dilson (actor), Harlan Briggs (actor), Byron Foulger (actor), Chuck Hamilton (actor), Frank Jaquet (actor), Boris Karloff (actor), William Lally (actor),
Plot: Mad Scientist, Dr. Henryk Savaard, is obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. The police are alerted of Savaard's activities by his assistant's girlfriend. Savaard is arrested, convicted and sentenced to hang. He vows revenge on the judge, jury and district attorney. After the hanging, his assistant claims Savaard's body and uses Savaard's technique on it. Savaard is brought back to life. Now he can seek sweet revenge on his prosecutors.
Keywords: agnostic, artificial-heart, back-from-the-dead, butler, closing-argument, conspiracy, cryonics, death-penalty, death-threat, district-attorneyActors: William T. Lackey (miscellaneous crew), John W. Noble (director), J.C. Fowler (actor), Sheldon Lewis (actor), Herbert Rawlinson (actor), Mildred Harris (actress), Stuart Paton (writer), Shirley Palmer (actress), Nils Keith (actor),
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