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Bob Roberts

Year:

1992

Duration:

102 min

Genres:

Comedy

IMDB rate:

7.1

Director:

Tim Robbins

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 5 wins & 1 nomination

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1992-09-04

Filming Locations: Eisenhower Auditorium, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, USA

Earnings

Gross: $4,479,470 (USA) Filming Dates 4 November 1991 - 10 December 1991 Related Links

Cast

Actor

Character

Eva Amurri Martino

Tim Robbins

Bob Roberts

Giancarlo Esposito

Bugs Raplin

Alan Rickman

Lukas Hart III

Ray Wise

Chet MacGregor

Brian Murray

Terry Manchester

Gore Vidal

Senator Brickley Paiste

Rebecca Jenkins

Delores Perrigrew

Harry Lennix

Franklin Dockett

John Ottavino

Clark Anderson

Robert Stanton

Bart Macklerooney

Kelly Willis

Clarissa Flan

Merrilee Dale

Polly Roberts

Tom Atkins

Dr. Caleb Menck

David Strathairn

Mack Laflin

James Spader

Chuck Marlin

Pamela Reed

Carol Cruise

Helen Hunt

Rose Pondell

Jim West

Bus Driver

Peter Gallagher

Dan Riley

Lynne Thigpen

Kelly Noble

Bingo O'Malley

Robert Roberts, Sr.

Kathleen Chalfant

Constance Roberts

Ruth Lesko

School Teacher

Jack Black

Roger Davis

Matthew Faber

Calvin

Matt McGrath

Burt

Anita Gillette

Mrs. Davis

Susan Sarandon

Tawna Titan

Fred Ward

Chip Daley

Charles R. Altman

Debate Moderator (as Charles Altman)

Shannon Holt

Rita

Staci Marie Marcum

Miss Philadelphia (as Staci Marcum)

Shira Piven

Penn State Protester

Steve Pink

Penn State Protester

Fisher Stevens

Rock Bork

Gil Robbins

Reverend Best

Angela Hall

Choir Soloist

Lee Robbins

Organ Player

John Cusack

Cutting Edge Host

Bob Balaban

Michael Janes

Allan F. Nicholls

Cutting Edge Director (as Allan Nicholls)

June Stein

Cutting Edge Assistant Carol

Adam Simon

Cutting Edge Head Writer

Ned Bellamy

Uzi Kornhauser

Natalie Strong

Kala Kornhauser

Burnice Brourman

Nurse

Pat Logan

Frank Ryan, Policeman

Larry John Meyers

Police Spokesman (as Larry John Myers)

Robert Hegyes

Ernesto Galleano

Tom Tully

New York Reporter

Anthony Dileo Jr.

New York Reporter

Jane Crawford

New York Reporter

Ann Talman

New York Reporter

Lamont Arnold

New York Reporter

Gabrielle Robbins

Singing Vigilante

Adele Robbins

Vigilante

Brian Powell

Vigilante

Paul Quinn

Vigilante

Dean Robinson

Vigilante

Jeff Foster

Vigilante

Jeremy Piven

Candle Seller

Lee Arenberg

Religious Zealot

David Sinaiko

Liberal

Brent Hinkley

Bif, the Patriot

Hal O'Leary

Senator Haydn

Don Brockett

Chairman

Linda King

Washington D.C. Reporter

Tracy Generalovich

Miss Three Mile Island

Aaron Jackson

Julie Matthews

News Reporter

Sean Paul Braud

Extra (uncredited)

Stephen Halbert

Nigel the Soundman (uncredited)

Michelle Nagy

Pageant Contestant (uncredited)

Dave Petti

Debate Spectator (uncredited)

Joe Shelby

Doctor (uncredited)

Jeff Tackett

Himself (Orioles Catcher) (uncredited)

Ronald Thomas

Security Guard (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Tim Robbins touted this project around the various studios for six years. Ironically, for a film about the American political process, it was the English production company Working Title that came up with the necessary funds.

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The actors playing Bob and his two primary assistants have played United States Presidents in other films: Tim Robbins in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999), Ray Wise in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 (2000) and its extension pack Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge (2001), and Alan Rickman in Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013).

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When Tim Robbins approached his actor friends about doing the movie, he said most of them asked to play newscasters.

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Goofs

The film takes place in 1990, on the eve of the Persian Gulf War. In real life, neither of Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate seats were up for re-election that year.

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In a scene where Bob gets off the bus in "Harrisburg" a police barrier clearly says "City of Philadelphia."

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Quotes

Chuck Marlin: I could use a strong finisher myself sometimes

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Kelly Noble: Bob Roberts is yet another of that faction that lives to destroy whatever good came out of the 60s, to rewrite the history of that important period. A period where the American people actually were informed and aware, and realized that they had a voice. They demanded that a war end. Bob Roberts is Nixon, only he's shrewder, more complicated, this Bob Roberts. Now here is a man who has adopted the persona and mindset of a free-thinking rebel and turned it on itself. The Rebel Conservative! That is deviant brilliance. What a Machiavellian poser.

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Bob Roberts: Don't smoke crack. It's a ghetto drug.

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