Bob Roberts Short Film by Tim Robbins

U.S. 1985
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Back in 1985 while shooting Five Corners in NYC my friend Laila Nabulsi convinced the folks she knew at Saturday Night Live to give us some money to make a short film about a character called Bob Roberts. At the time Bob was a yuppie businessman who subverted folk music to serve his own ideology. As time went on and I expanded this idea into a feature film, Bob’s ambition grew, and by 1992 Bob, guitar in hand, was running for the US Senate.