In 1968, I was a junior in High School, and the sensation Stephanie evoked at the end of the piece is so exact that I skipped a breath when I read it. As a 55 year-old Grandmother now, I often wonder what kind of world I could have raised my children in had Bobby been alive and elected, instead of becoming the icon for so much that we lost.

Thanks for the remembrance-Honestly, I don't know whether to smile at how idealistic I was once, or cry over how different the world is now. I worry every day about the world my Grandchildren will inherit. What can I say to them that would make them feel the sense of hope in the future that was almost a birthright for the long-haired culture shcokers of my generation?

Please, this movie is garbage, and the review subtly conveys that..

It's absolute trash and feels like a dated lifetime movie, if there isn't such a thing.

Ms. Zacharek is right that the movie is over-stuffed with characters, and that some of them really don't add much; but clearly, Estevez was trying to make the Ambassador a stand-in for America itself, and 1968 was a particularly over-stuffed year, when America had seemingly thousands of different strings, all being pulled and frayed at once. So it's probably inevitable that, in trying to catch that flavor, Estevez might have crammed in a bit too much for one movie. But it's one of those errors that I found it easy to forgive because, on the whole, the movie just plain worked for me. It accomplished exactly what it set out to accomplish: to bring home again a sense of what was lost on the day RFK was killed. I was only three at the time and can't remember what it was like, so when my ex-hippie mother would talk with reverence about Bobby, I never quite understood what she was talking about--after all, my political impressions all began during the Nixon years, when it was inconceivable to feel that way about a politician. So if a movie can make me feel that strongly about a politician, if it can make me lament, even for a moment, what we lost when RFK died as if I too had been there, then I'm perfectly happy to forgive a whole host of errors.

This was the Bobby Kennedy story done as Robert Altman would have made it, with all the pluses and minuses that implies.

Ashton Kutcher? Sharon Stone? What the HELL was Estevez thinking? A movie set agianst the backdrop of Bobby Kennedy's assination starring "Frodo" and Lindsey Lohan?

How incredibly insulting.

I haven't seen it yet but I will. And, I'm pretty sure I'll cry. I'll cry because the reviewer is right because Bobby Kennedy probably is the "best president we never had."

To start with, more people died in Vietnam under Nixon than under LBJ. And that was due solely to Nixon trying to find the magic bullet that would get us out without him taking the blame for "losing Vietnam." Bobby would have had us out quickly. And, many thousand's of people would be alive today had Bobby become president.

Bobby was shrewdly political yet he used that ability in service to people and not to con them. I was always stuck in the story of the Cuban Missle Crisis that when the US received two messages from Kruschev with the latter one sounding omminous, that it was Bobbly Kennedy who spoke up at the meetings with JFK to say, "Why don't we just ignore this last one and just reply to the first message that seems to provide a way of avoiding war."

And I have little doubt that we would have had a ton of programs to help out a lot of people and Bobby, just by the force of his personality, would have made people love it.

The assassination of JFK was a tradgidy but I've always thought that the assasination of RFK was a disaster.