10 Awesome Obscure Alan Rickman Roles You Probably Missed
5. Bob Roberts
With the current American presidential campaign in full swing, and with Donald Trump having unadvisedly taken to Twitter, the timing for a re-watch of 1992s Bob Roberts couldnt be better. A political satire starring Tim Robbins as Bob, a right wing senatorial candidate whose sole goal in life is to make as much money as possible as quickly as possible, the most frightening thing about the movie is that, comedy or not, many of its messages are still frighteningly relevant 25 years later. Admittedly the script is thin and the idea struggles to stretch itself over a two hour timeframe, but thats where the quietly excellent performance of Alan Rickman comes in. Cast as Lukas Hart III, Robbins achingly cool campaign chairman, Rickman steals the show with such immortal lines as thats what you get with a liberal agenda, pumped full of drugs and pipe dreams and excuse me, I have to go pray. Despite a modest showing at the box office at the time, recent years have seen the movie take on a new lease of life as the world wakes up to the kind of political corruption that the movie was addressing a quarter of a century ago.
