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A 2006 drama movie directed by Emilio Estevez, starring an All-Star Cast including Harry Belafonte, Joy Bryant, Estevez himself, Nick Cannon, Demi Moore among others.

The film takes place in the hours before Robert F. Kennedy's assassination and before his 1968 primary win in California on the same day.

The movie was released on November 17, 2006.


Tropes in this film:

  • All for Nothing: Teased but thankfully subverted. Diane marries William to keep him from being sent to a battlefield, only for him to be shot mere minutes after the ceremony as collateral damage during RFK's assassination. The subversion comes from how (like everyone else shot besides Kennedy himself) William survives.
  • Been There, Shaped History: The cast all end up in the hotel kitchen on the night of the assassination and become collateral damage, with Jose ending up tending to the dying RFK before help arrives.
  • Becoming the Mask: William and Diane are getting married to keep him form being sent to a battlefield, but seem to develop some more genuine feelings as the story goes on.
  • Downer Ending: RFK is shot and later dies of his injuries, which makes many lose hope of bringing the country together.
  • Dropped-in Speech Clip: Used a couple of times, but it's used most powerfully when RFK is shot, with the resultant chaos overlaid by RFK's speech, "On the Mindless Menace of Violence".
  • Henpecked Husband: Tim Fallon, who is dealing with his wife's, Virginia Fallon, drinking and trying to help her revive her career as a singer.
  • Historical Figures in Archival Media: Although he does have an actor in this movie, most of RFK's actual appearances come from archive footage of the real man scattered throughout the movie.
  • Intrepid Reporter: Lenka is a reporter who is obsessed with getting an interview with RFK, in spite of being told that, being Czechoslovakian and therefore from a Communist country, his campaign would not look good speaking to her. She's eventually allowed into a private conference for reporters... after RFK's speech, which he would not make it to, although she does get the scoop on his murder.
  • Marriage of Convenience: Diane marries William not because of love, but because she wants to save him from the battlefield, although they are hinted at to gain genuine feelings as the movie goes on.
  • Mushroom Samba: Jimmy and Cooper go through one when they accept acid from a drug dealer. Of note is seeing an average cupboard open into footage of events from 1968 whilst the two are under acid.
  • Period Piece: Takes place on June 5, 1968.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: Despite his cheating, Paul is cordial to his employees and respectful of their problems, firing a subordinate for being racist to the African-American kitchen staff.
  • Sidelong Glance Biopic: The story of the RFK assassination from the POV of a group of different people who happen to be at the hotel that day.


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