Movies
October, 1992
In this election year, Bob Roberts (Miramax/Paramount) is as timely as a TV sound bite. The movie turns out to be darkly comic as well, with Tim Robbins--star of Robert Altman's The Player--hot as ever in the title role, while positioning himself as a triple-threat man (he also wrote and directed this social send-up). The titular Roberts is a rich, rabid folksinger financing his own "rebel conservative" race for the U.S. Senate. His campaign is being filmed by a British TV documentary...
