Bob Roberts (DVD)

“stay in school… and don’t take crack; it’s a ghetto drug.” Bob Roberts is a senatorial candidate with a mission. He’s adopted the rebel persona but he’s a rebel conservative, a staunchly right-wing figure whose agenda is to obliterate wishy-washy liberal thinking, hang the drug dealers, champion self-interest and cast aside pathetic state hand-out scroungers… and he’s going to do it all with the aid of his guitar… Back in 1992, with the support of Working Title, a British company, because American distributors would not touch the project, Tim Robbins wrote, directed and starred in a blistering satirical mock-documentary following the fortunes of ...  Read the complete review