milio Estevez channels Robert Altman with "Bobby," a star-studded collage demonstrating a restless era through a single historical event. "Bobby" re-imagines the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy by presenting the perspectives of glamorous guests, employees and campaign workers as they swirl about the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, and their tales of woe.

Chronicling the senseless murder of a man who stood for change in the country, the film mixes archival footage of Robert F. Kennedy when the senator was shot just after his victory in the California primary in June 1968. In doing this, Bobby brings an unrelated group of guests and service workers whose lives bear no connection except that they inhabit the same spaces as Robert F. Kennedy in the 24 hours preceding his assassination on that fateful night.

In a surprisingly lazy performance, Anthony Hopkins (a Bobby executive producer) plays a former hotel worker who loiters in the lobby and plays chess with his senile buddy (Harry Belafonte). A wealthy couple (a highly boring Helen Hunt and Martin Sheen) are on their second honeymoon, a young couple (Lindsay Lohan and Elijah Wood) are getting married as a protest against the Vietnam War. Kitchen staffers (Laurence Fishburne and Freddy Rodriguez) try to make their escape to a Dodgers game while a switchboard operator (Heather Graham) tries to end her affair with the hotel manager (William H. Macy).

Then we have an emotional hairdresser (Sharon Stone) dancing to the oldies while tending to alcoholic cabaret singer Virginia Fallon (Demi Moore), and her husband (Estevez) who's had enough of her diva bullshit. Racist restaurant manager Timmins (Christian Slater) and acid-dropping drug dealer (Ashton Kutcher) bring little to the picture other than displaying that the '60s was the Age of Aquarius. Restaurant workers Jose (Freddy Rodriguez), Miguel (Jacob Vargas), and Edward (Laurence Fishburne) appear in order to represent the Civil Rights struggle.