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    World's Greatest Dad

    R2010 · Comedy drama · 1h 39m

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  1. Sep 2, 2009 · Bobcat Goldthwait makes a daring assault in "World's Greatest Dad" against our yearning to mythologize the dead. But he loses his nerve just before the earth is completely scorched. I have a notion his first draft screenplay might have been unremittingly dark and cynical. It might not have been "commercial." This version may have a better chance. Audiences think they like bleak pessimism, but ...

  2. World's Greatest Dad is a risky, deadpan, dark comedy that effectively explores the nature of posthumous cults of celebrity. When the son of high school English teacher Lance Clayton (Robin ...

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    • Robin Williams
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  3. World's Greatest Dad Reviews. World’s Greatest Dad is more tender and heartfelt because of Williams’ performance. And when it’s all over, no matter how obscure the plot or demented the ...

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  5. Aug 21, 2009 · In World's Greatest Dad, Williams plays an English Teacher, who covers up his son's bizarre and embarrassing death. The suicide note he forged gets printed by the school newspaper, making his loser son, an overnight sensation. Williams is a great actor and gives creedence to even a bad film like this, but even he can't save this one.

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    • Robin Williams
    • R
    • 2 min
  6. Sep 24, 2010 · World's Greatest Dad: Directed by Bobcat Goldthwait. With Robin Williams, Daryl Sabara, Morgan Murphy, Naomi Glick. 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.

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    • Comedy, Drama
    • Bobcat Goldthwait
    • 2010-09-24
  7. Suburbia has transformed from an innocent place with friendly neighbors to a world full of miserable, sometimes disturbed people, dreams deferred, and earth-shattering secrets. From this year's Sundance Film Festival we have Bobcat Goldthwait's dark comedy World's Greatest Dad, we delve once again into the unknown of Any Town, USA.

  8. Jan 19, 2009 · Robin Williams' nude dive at the end of 'World's Greatest Dad' is an apt metaphor for what he has done professionally.

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