Bobby (2006 film)

Bobby is a 2006 American drama film written and directed by Emilio Estevez, and starring an ensemble cast. The screenplay is a fictionalized account of the hours leading up to the June 5, 1968 shooting of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy in the kitchen of The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles following his win of the 1968 Democratic Party presidential primary in California.

The characters include John Casey, a retired hotel doorman who spends his days playing chess with his friend Nelson in the lobby Diane, who is marrying her friend William with the hope his marital status will have him deployed to a military base in Germany rather than the battlefields of Vietnam when his tour of duty begins Virginia Fallon, an alcoholic singer whose career is on the downswing, her putupon husbandmanager Tim, and her agent Phil Miriam Ebbers, a beautician who works in the hotel salon, and her husband Paul, the hotel manager, who is having an affair with switchboard operator Angela food and beverage manager Daryl Timmons, whose racist attitude gets him fired African American sous chef Edward Robinson and Mexican American busboys Jos and Miguel hotel coffee shop waitress Susan Jimmy and Cooper, campaign volunteers who are sidetracked by an acid trip they take with the help of drug dealer Fisher married socialites and campaign donors Samantha and Jack campaign manager Wade and staffer Dwayne, who is in a love interest with Angelas colleague, Patricia and Czechoslovak reporter Lenka Jankov, who is determined to get an interview with Kennedy.In Bobby The Making of an American Epic, screenwriterdirector Emilio Estevez discusses the problems he had developing his script. Suffering from writers block, he checked into a motel in Pismo Beach where he hoped, free from interruption, he could make some headway with his writing. While talking to the woman working at the front desk, he discovered she had been in the Ambassador Hotel on the evening Kennedy was shot, and later married two young men to help them avoid the draft. Estevez used her experience to mold the character of Diane, and the rest of the story fell into place. ........

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