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When the son of high school English teacher Lance Clayton (Robin Williams) accidentally kills himself, Clayton writes a fake suicide note to evade scandal. At first uninterested in the death, the school is taken by the letter after it is published in the school paper. Hoping to claim the literary renown he has always wanted, Lance writes a diary, too. Fame and intrigue follow and Lance receives the attention he always wished for, but finds keeping his cool might be easier written than done.
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Rating: R (Language|Disturbing Images|Crude and Sexual Content|Some Drug Use)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Original Language: English
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Director: Bobcat Goldthwait
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Producer: Tim Perell, Howard Gertler, Sean McKittrick, Richard Kelly
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Writer: Bobcat Goldthwait
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Release Date (Theaters): limited
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Box Office (Gross USA): $221.2K
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Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
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Production Co: Magnolia Pictures, Darko Entertainment
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Dark, weird, and almost impossible to watch at times, "World's Greatest Dad" goes through comedy, heartbreak, and overcoming loss and it does it so fast you have to be ready to switch your mood off and on as the movie goes along. I was not a huge fan of how they used all of these themes throughout the film. I was taken out of this film in many scenes, mainly due to the fact that I had no idea any of these things were explored in this movie. It is very hard not to spoil this film by talking about the plot, so I will keep this review very simple. "World's Greatest Dad" is a very well-made picture with some brutally honest moments and a fantastic performance by Robin Williams, but you may or may not like some of the filmmaking choices present here. Overall, it is a very good film that I have many issues with.
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From writer/director Bobcat Goldthwait comes the dark satire World's Greatest Dad. When his son dies in a freak accident Lance Clayton tries to preserve his son's dignity by staging a suicide, but when the suicide note gets leaked and becomes a source of inspiration to others Clayton gets caught up in an ever increasing web of lies to prevent the truth from coming out. Robin Williams leads the cast and gives a fairly strong performance. And, the writing does an effective job at making Clayton's situation sympathetic and showing how his good intentions turn on him. However, the film goes a little out of its way to make Clayton's son reprehensible, and a lot of the characters are one-dimensional. Though it doesn't completely work, World's Greatest Dad explores some provocative issues in an interesting way.
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"I use to think the worse thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worse thing in life is ending up with people who make you feel like your alone." A dark and twisted comedy. It isn't for everyone. It's inappropriate, sad, twisted and liberating at the same time. I guess in a way it's kind of brilliant how it portrays several layers of emotion. That said, I almost couldn't deal with the first part of the movie, the inappropiate parts made me sick to my stomach, guess it was important for shock factors, but it just doesn't cut it for me. After you go through that part, then yeah, that's a movie, but that part was too much for me, I was way too close of turning my tv off.
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World's Greatest Dad is bizarre, depressing and has a disappointing payoff, but it's also strangely heartfelt and funny in an odd, offbeat way.
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