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MUMBAI: PIX-the premium English movie channel from Multi Screen Media Ltd. formerly known as Sony Entertainment Network celebrates the television premiere of ?Bobby? as PIX Super Movie of the Month. Directed and written by Emilio Estevez, the award winning movie has been slated for telecast on Friday, October 30 2009, 9pm.
Starring Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore, Elijah Wood, Lindsay Lohan, Sharon Stone, Ashton Kutcher amongst others. The movie nominated for 2 Golden Globes was the winner of Hollywood Film Festival 2006 for Ensemble of the Year, PFCS Award 2006 for Breakout Performance of the Year-Behind the camera and Venice Film Festival 2006 for Biografilm award.
?Bobby? is a powerful drama that showcases hope, anger, and confusion that gripped the U.S. in the late 1960s.
The movie is based on the story of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy who was shot in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968 near the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. It recreates the ambiance of the era and invokes the hopes inspired by Kennedy through the use of actual newsreel footage.
Bobby highlights the life of 22 people in the hotelintercut with dramatic sequences whose lives were never the same. Estevez uses the day June 4th, 1969, assassination of Kennedy as the means to take a snapshot of the problems facing the country as the 1960‘s came to an end.The hotel is a microcosm of class and race, with fictional characters bouncing off each other until the violent conclusion.
The Tagline, ?He saw wrong and tried to right it. He saw suffering and tried to heal it. He saw war and tried to stop it? sums up the plot.
Experience non-stop entertainment, tune in to ?Bobby? ? PIX Super Movie of the Month this Friday, October 30 2009, 9pm only on PIX.
