Sentences with phrase «boiler room girls»

Some of the basic facts about the incident are these (some are still in dispute): The Senator, in Edgartown for the annual regatta he had missed the previous year because of Bobby's death, had just left a party for his brother Robert's former campaign staffers at a small cottage in Chappaquiddick to drive one of the so - called «boiler room girls,» Mary Jo Kopechne, to catch the last ferry back to Edgartown.

He has arrived at Chappaquiddick to celebrate his brother Robert's legacy, inviting his cousin Joe Gargan (Ed Helms), his U.S. Attorney friend Paul Markham (Jim Gaffigan), and Bobby's «Boiler Room Girls,» including Mary Jo (Kate Mara).

July 18 - 20, 1969, the weekend of the moon landing, was the Kennedy family's House Of Medici moment: its public values embodied by the televised journey of the Apollo spacecraft; its ambitions by a simultaneous backroom scramble to stage - manage the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, one of the late Robert F. Kennedy's Boiler Room Girls, in a upturned Oldsmobile Delmont that Senator Ted Kennedy, the last surviving Kennedy son, had crashed into a pond on Martha's Vineyard after a party.

During a celebration for a group of women known as the Boiler Room Girls (who worked on his brother Bobby's ill - fated presidential campaign the year before), he went off for a night drive with one of the female campaign workers, 28 - year - old Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara).

Kate Mara plays Kopechne, depicted as an earnest young woman a member of the «Boiler Room Girls,» a group of secretaries and strategists who gave their souls to Bobby's presidential campaign, and were being urged to sign on for another one.

The trailer for the John Curran - directed film stars Jason Clarke as Kennedy and Kate Mara as Kopechne as well as a roster of actors portraying all the WASPy figures involved in the event including Bruce Dern as the senator's domineering father Joseph Kennedy, Ed Helms as Joe Gargan, Jim Gaffigan as DA Paul Markham, and Olivia Thirlby as one of the «boiler room girls,» a group of single women who worked Bobby Kennedy's 1968 Presidential campaign, which ended with his assassination.

The gathering was in honor of the Boiler Room Girls, a half - dozen women who had worked on his late brother Bobby's aborted presidential campaign the previous year.

Bruce Dern («The Hateful Eight») plays the Kennedy patriarch Joseph, with Ed Helms («The Office») as Joe Gargan, Jim Gaffigan («It's Kind of a Funny Story») as DA Paul Markham and Olivia Thirlby («Dredd») playing a previous «boiler room girl» for Bobby Kennedy «s presidential campaign.

Under the weight of expectation from his father to return the family to the White House, the success of his deceased brothers and a lot of alcohol, Edward goes for a spin with «Boiler Room Girl» Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara), drives the car off a bridge into a tidal channel, and leaves the accident scene with his passenger still trapped inside the vehicle.

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Newly 40, Joe juggles long hours working in a boiler room, an ongoing custody battle, his wife's chronic illness, and the demands of raising four girls.