It is likely his most human turn, after a lifetime of striving for such authenticity.
Robin Williams Excelled at Playing Lovable Father Figures
Williams rose to fameplaying likable, zany characters.
Directed byChris Columbus,Mrs.
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That might have been a happy ending, but it wasn’t a realistic one.
Even in his more lighthearted movies, Williams wanted to be raw and real.
He had gone through his own divorce and young kids andworried that kids of divorce would watchMrs.
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Doubtfireand then get hopeful that their own parents will get back together.
Perhaps even more telling was his turn in the 1999 science fiction philosophy taleBicentennial Man.
Sy is a quiet and very lonely man working at a one-hour photo shop.
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Theres a simplicity to Randolphs reactionary reshaping of the events that surround him and box him in.
What Is ‘World’s Greatest Dad’ About?
He is a single father teaching poetry in a sparsely attended class in a nondescript preparatory high school.
Realizing the legacy of the circumstances of his sons demise, Lance makes a decision to rewrite his passing.
This symbolic act turns out to damn the father to a similar fate.
Robin Williams first performance in the raunchy 70s comedy was marred in controversy.
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He probably doesnt even see the women exploited on their covers.
He sees his son his filthy, perverted son and he openly weeps.
He is comforted by the vendor, played byNirvanabassistKrist Novoselic, with a simple arm around the shoulder.
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It is a reflective act and a distillation of humanity.
Everyone is a boundless mystery and that is what truly binds us: our differences.
Goldthwait himself played the titular role as an alcoholic clown who does birthday parties.
When his son’s body is found in a humiliating accident, a lonely high school teacher inadvertently attracts an overwhelming amount of community and media attention after covering up the truth with a phony suicide note.
Goldthwait pushes his comedy to the edge, as if very clear withWorld’s Greatest Dad.
Goldthwait was one of the ’90s biggest oddballs, but he was a liked one.
In 2019, Bobcat spoke toVulturewhere he reminisced about his close friend and how he met him.
We started and it was a collaboration."
When Robin Williams died in 2014, we lost an actor that we loved.
For Bobcat Goldthwait, he lost one of his best friends.
Robin Williams could do it all.
Worlds Greatest Dadis available to watch on Max in the U.S.
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