Emilio Estevez's lament for the lost ideals of the ’60s draws heavily from the Robert Altman playbook, weaving multiple stories around a galvanizing event — in this case, the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy in the kitchen of Los Angeles’ Ambassador Hotel moments after winning the California presidential primary. June 4, 1968: Fading but still fabled, the Ambassador plays host to a broad spectrum of guests in town to attend a Kennedy campaign reception that night. Throughout the day, they cross and diverge — from underpaid switchboard operators Patricia (Joy Bryant) and Angela (Heather Graham), who's having an affair with her boss, hotel manager Paul Ebbers (W...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
120 mins