He saw wrong and tried to right it. He saw suffering and tried to heal it. He saw war and tried to stop it.
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
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Earnest, grave, contemplative and prestige.
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- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jan 20256/10
Well I don't know quite was I was expecting, but this half-baked version of "Grand Hotel" - the television series rather than the classy 1932 film - certainly wasn't it. Indeed it has precious little to do with the titular politician, but more those people either attached to the early stages of his primary nomination campaign or to the legendary Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles. The constant is it's general manager John Casey (Sir Anthony Hopkins) who has met and greeted many of the great and the good over the years and who is passing his day with his friend "Nelson" (Harry Belafonte) awaiting the arrival of Senator Kennedy. Then there's "Ebbers" (William H.Macy) who's just had a run in with his catering manager "Simmons" (Christian Slater); a persistent Czech journalist trying to convince everyone she's not from a communist dictatorship; a couple of gents who just want to go join Ashton Kutcher and get stoned and some (il/legal) kitchen staff paranoid - with good reason - about being fired. There are also a couple of soapy sub-plots asking who's having an affair with whom and the whole thing is interspersed with some actuality of the night's real-time political events as if to give
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Cast
- Anthony HopkinsJohn Casey
- William H. MacyPaul Ebbers
- Harry BelafonteNelson
- Freddy RodríguezJosé Rojas
- Laurence FishburneEdward Robinson
- Heather GrahamAngela
- Lindsay LohanDiane
- Shia LaBeoufCooper
- Christian SlaterDaryl Timmons
- Sharon StoneMiriam Ebbers
Crew
- Emilio EstevezDirector
- Emilio EstevezScreenplay
- Michael BarrettDirector of Photography
- Mark IshamOriginal Music Composer
- Richard ChewEditor
- Holly WiersmaProducer
- Michel LitvakProducer
- Edward BassProducer
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