
He saw wrong and tried to right it. He saw suffering and tried to heal it. He saw war and tried to stop it.
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Cast
- Harry Belafonte
- Joy Bryant
- Nick Cannon
- Emilio Estevez
- Laurence Fishburne
- Brian Geraghty
- Heather Graham
- Anthony Hopkins
- Helen Hunt
- Joshua Jackson
- David Krumholtz
- Ashton Kutcher
- Shia LaBeouf
- Lindsay Lohan
- William H. Macy
- Svetlana Metkina
- Demi Moore
- Freddy Rodríguez
- Martin Sheen
- Christian Slater
- Sharon Stone
- Jacob Vargas
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead
- Elijah Wood
- Gene Borkan
- London Bridges
- Tony Besson
- Tony Colitti
- Jose del Mar
- Mario Di Donato
- Steve Alvarez-Forbess
- Dave Fraunces
- Spencer Garrett
- David Kobzantsev
- John Lavachielli
- Sonja Magdevski
- Kevin McCorkle
- Scoot McNairy
- Martin Morales
- Joel Munoz
- Louis Mustillo
- Orlando Seale
- Denny Seiwell
- Oren Skoog
- Joe Torrenueva
- John F. Kennedy
- Robert F. Kennedy
- Ted Kennedy
- Martin Luther King
- Ray Quiroga
- Jennifer Amy
- Caley Bisson
- Felix J. Boyle
- Daniel Byington
- Blaine Cade
- Luna Rocio Cantale
- Lauren Carter
- Lori M. Cincotta
- Mario R. Coello
- Jeridan Frye
- Drew Gallagher
- Rosemary Garris
- Jerry Giles
- Shana Golden
- Travis Grenke
- Greg Haines
- Brian Hammers
- Andrew Michael Harlander
- Ernest Heinz
- Elizabeth Hirsch-Tauber
- Mark Holmes
- Anthony Jennings
- Krista Key
- Mollye Knox
- Tassa Loncarevic
- David McDivitt
- Harris Michaels
- John T. O'Brien
- Norm O'Neill
- Jean-Pierre Parent
- Aaron Jay Rome
- Dave Schuetz
- Barry Sigismondi
- Jennifer Sims
- Perry Smith
- Soledad St. Hilaire
- Carolyn Stotesbery
- John H. Tobin
- Larry Varanelli
- Alyson Weaver
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The story of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was shot in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968 in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and twenty-two people in the hotel, whose lives were never the same.
Tuesday, June 4, 1968: the California Presidential primary. As day breaks, Robert F. Kennedy arrives at the Ambassador Hotel. He'll campaign, then speak to supporters at midnight. To capture the texture of the late 1960s, we see vignettes at the hotel: a couple marries so he can avoid Vietnam, kitchen staff discuss race and baseball, a man cheats on his wife, another is fired for racism, a retired hotel doorman plays chess in the lobby with an old friend, a campaign strategist's wife needs a pair of black shoes, two campaign staff trip on LSD, a lounge singer is on the downhill slide. Through it all, we see and hear R.F.K. calling for a better society and a better nation.
It's June 4, 1968, the day of the California Democratic Presidential primary. At the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, the campaign headquarters of New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy's Presidential bid, there is optimism as he is seen by many as the savior to get the United States out of its current troubled times, especially in dealing with a war the public doesn't want, and thinks it can't win. In addition to the those working on the campaign, others at the hotel are dealing with their daily lives which reflect both the troubled times and the hope and optimism of the campaign: a young couple about to get married as part of the anti-war effort; hotel staff dealing with race relations among their own, specifically between whites, blacks, and Mexicans; hotel staff dealing with marital relations amongst their own; senior hotel staff chatting about the twilight of their lives over games of chess; those looking forward to what they see as Don Drysdale's inevitable record-breaking sixth consecutive shut-out at that evening's Dodgers' game; a couple of campaign volunteers feeling guilty about getting high versus doing their volunteer job for the day of convincing a couple of hundred people to vote for the Senator; a Czech reporter wanting five minutes with the Senator for a good news story for her Socialist newspaper; the hotel's diva-ish and alcoholic entertainer and her husband contemplating her professional future; and an upper middle class New York City couple more concerned about public perception than the realities of their marriage. But all hope for a bright American future comes to a halt at 12:06 a.m. on June 5, 1968.
All kinds of different people who assembled, worked and lived at the Amassador Hotel, dealing with their personal struggles at the background of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy on that fateful day in 1968. Emilio Estevez is actor, Writer, and Director of this movie, which turns out to be a loving portait of this Presidential candidate.