This political satire (yes. SATIRE.) explores the seamy underbelly of campaigning and the politics of image through the guise of 'documentary' filmmaking. In the course of following the senatorial campaign of right-wing folk singer Bob Roberts, the audience is poked and prodded (one hopes) into realizing that failure to get involved is the same as writing a blank check to nutty, sleazeball political operators. Though the film is heavy handed in parts -- I wish that the 'lunatic fringe' elements at both ends of the political spectrum had been shown to be as destructively insane as Mr. Roberts and his mucus-oid politics -- it is wickedly funny. Personally, I would find it worth my time to watch just for the music (which Tim Robbins wrote with his brother David) -- music which is so clever and funny that Robbins refused to release a soundtrack, for fear that right wing elements, who didn't understand that the songs were intended to poke fun at them, might actually use them in a campaign.
Awards
1992 Tokyo International Film Festival Bronze Award (Tim Robbins)
1993 Political Film Society Democracy award winner
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