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Bold Films
The Weinstein Company
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He saw wrong and tried to right it. He saw suffering and tried to heal it. He saw war and tried to stop it.
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
CinemaSerf
Jan 22, 2025 · via TMDB
Well I don't know quite was I was expecting, but this half-baked version of "Grand Hotel" - the television series rather than the classy 1932 film - certainly wasn't it. Indeed it has precious little to do with the titular politician, but more those people either attached to the early stages of his primary nomination campaign or to the legendary Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles. The constant is it's general manager John Casey (Sir Anthony Hopkins) who has met and greeted many of the great and the good over the years and who is passing his day with his friend "Nelson" (Harry Belafonte) awaiting the arrival of Senator Kennedy. Then there's "Ebbers" (William H.Macy) who's just had a run in with his catering manager "Simmons" (Christian Slater); a persistent Czech journalist trying to convince everyone she's not from a communist dictatorship; a couple of gents who just want to go join Ashton Kutcher and get stoned and some (il/legal) kitchen staff paranoid - with good reason - about being fired. There are also a couple of soapy sub-plots asking who's having an affair with whom and the whole thing is interspersed with some actuality of the night's real-time political events as if to give it some weight. Sadly, though, despite it's pretty stellar cast the whole thing just doesn't knit in anything like an interesting enough fashion. It's as if Emilio Estevez determined to get as many of his friends and family (and their friends and family) to take part in a Democrat fundraising movie peppered with some rousing dogma from the archives. It's over-scripted, pace-less and there are way too many distractions to make this anything compelling to watch. Shia LaBeouf at least looked like he enjoyed his part as the acid tripping "Cooper" but otherwise this borders on the earnest and frankly, the dull. Perhaps if it'd been called "Bobby's Hotel" then I might not have been so disappointed, but it wasn't and I was. Sorry.
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Anthony Hopkins
John Casey
William H. Macy
Paul Ebbers
Harry Belafonte
Nelson
Freddy Rodríguez
José Rojas
Laurence Fishburne
Edward Robinson
Heather Graham
Angela
Lindsay Lohan
Diane
Shia LaBeouf
Cooper
Christian Slater
Daryl Timmons
Sharon Stone
Miriam Ebbers
Helen Hunt
Samantha Stevens
Emilio Estevez
Tim Fallon
Demi Moore
Virginia Fallon
Nick Cannon
Dwayne
Joshua Jackson
Wade
Jacob Vargas
Miguel
Brian Geraghty
Jimmy
Svetlana Metkina
Lenka Janáček
Elijah Wood
William Avary
Joy Bryant
Patricia
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Susan Taylor
David Krumholtz
Agent Phil
Ashton Kutcher
Fisher
Martin Sheen
Jack Stevens
Spencer Garrett
David
Scoot McNairy
Beatnik
Gene Borkan
Salesman
Robert F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Ted Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Tony Colitti
Fireman
Mario Di Donato
Fireman
John Lavachielli
Bellman
Kevin McCorkle
Fire Captain
Martin Morales
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Louis Mustillo
Mario
Denny Seiwell
Band Leader
Oren Skoog
Beatnik
Michael Barrett
Director of Photography
Julie Weiss
Costume Design
Melissa Yonkey
Hairstylist
Emilio Estevez
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Richard Chew
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Anthony Hopkins
Executive Producer
Gary Michael Walters
Executive Producer
Matthew Landon
Executive Producer
Chris Douridas
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Mark Isham
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Bryan Adams
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