Movie "Bob Roberts" (1992)

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    " More amazing than Watergate."
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    Spoken Language
    Runtime 1 hr 39 min
    Budget $3 900 000
    Premiere: World September 11, 1992
    Box Office – Budget $579 470
    Premiere: USA $4 479 470 September 4, 1992
    theaters 306
    rollout 119 days
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    A conservative folk singer turns his hand to politics and runs for the U.S. Senate, but he is not above dirty tricks and smear campaigns to gain an advantage over his opponent.

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    On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a score of 95% based on 43 reviews, with an average rating of 7.48/10. Its consensus reads "Behind and in front of the camera, Tim Robbins delivers a landslide comedic victory with Bob Roberts – a shrewdly crackling lampoon of modern politics." On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 70% based on reviews from 26 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade B+ on scale of A to F.

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    Chicago Tribune September 15, 2020

    Like a relentlessly charismatic political candidate offering the moon, stars and a viable health-care plan, ''Bob Roberts'' promises much...

    Los Angeles Times September 15, 2020

    Whether we find Our Bob appealing or anathema, it is a measure of Robbins' exceptional success that no one can doubt how seductive a candidate...

    Newsweek February 8, 2018

    After a summer in Hollywood fantasyland, at last we have an American movie that rattles our cage-and pokes a sharp spear into the body po...

    Austin Chronicle March 10, 2003

    This Tim Robbins-helmed political satire about demogougery makes for an appropriate election-season re-release.

    RogerEbert.com January 1, 2000

    Watching it might be an education for some voters, who will recognize in the movie political techniques they see being practiced all the time in re...

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