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Bob Roberts
What a year owing Tim Robbins. In 1992, not only did he lead in Robert Altman's savage Hollywood satire The Virtuoso, but he also starred in, wrote and directed this gay pseudo-documentary about a population-singing, right-wing Member of Parliament running for the US Senate. Taking its genre from This Is Spinal Tap, with a deliberate on-screen fidelity to the Bob Dylan tour movie Don't Look Side with, Bob Roberts is both witty and wickedly pointed, if a outperform smug at times. Immaculately cast, with significant performances from Alan Rickman, Gore Vidal and John Cusack, the movie was a and consequential attainment seeking its puerile auteur, who went on to become one of the talkie names of the 1990s. Casually, Bob Roberts was, amazingly, produced via the American t...
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