BOB ROBERTS is a smart, funny pseudo-documentary about a conservative folk-singer who campaigns to become U.S. Senator for Pennsylvania, cloaking his extreme right-wing views in the radical rhetoric of the 1960s.
Directed and written by its star, Tim Robbins, the film began life as a sketch for "Saturday Night Live" in 1985. Much of it feels like an extended "SNL" gag (one of the funniest sequences has the would-be Senator appearing on a thinly disguised version of the show called "Cutting Edge Live"), but
Robbins has also clearly learned a lot from his work with Robert Altman on THE PLAYER.
Like Altman's best films, BOB ROBERTS builds a freewheeling, multi-...
Released:
1992
Rated:
R
Length:
105 mins