The home movies focus on an apple-cheeked young woman beaming into the camera. She's next to a man with a famous face, a face that still makes people wonder: What if?
What if Sen. Robert F. Kennedy had become president, as he was trying to do when he was assassinated on the campaign trail in 1968?
HBO's "Ethel," debuting Thursday, Oct. 18, is an intimate, loving portrait of the fun-loving, fearless woman who was the wife of Bobby Kennedy and mother of their 11 children. It was through the urging of Sheila Nevins, president of HBO Documentary Films, that filmmaker Rory Kennedy, who was born six months after her father was killed, turned the camera on her mother.
Now 84, Ethel, who shunned the spotlight for decades, reminisces. Rory draws on her family's catalog of photos and home movies, interviews with her siblings, and news footage to create a beautiful portrait. The result is a revealing,...
What if Sen. Robert F. Kennedy had become president, as he was trying to do when he was assassinated on the campaign trail in 1968?
HBO's "Ethel," debuting Thursday, Oct. 18, is an intimate, loving portrait of the fun-loving, fearless woman who was the wife of Bobby Kennedy and mother of their 11 children. It was through the urging of Sheila Nevins, president of HBO Documentary Films, that filmmaker Rory Kennedy, who was born six months after her father was killed, turned the camera on her mother.
Now 84, Ethel, who shunned the spotlight for decades, reminisces. Rory draws on her family's catalog of photos and home movies, interviews with her siblings, and news footage to create a beautiful portrait. The result is a revealing,...
- 10/18/2012
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