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LA Weekly
Boston Globe
"Surprisingly smart and severely twisted dark comedy"
Detroit News
Dallas Morning News
"From director Bobcat Goldthwait -- yes, that guy -- comes one of the year's most original films."
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
"Pick"
Seattle Weekly
Time Out Chicago
"Savagely funny, unexpectedly touching."
The Onion
"SEE IT. A GEM WITH A TERRIFIC, REMARKABLY FUNNY SCRIPT."
Ben Mankewicz, At The Movies
"SEE IT. IT’S GOT SOMETHING SPECIAL TO IT THAT REALLY MAKES IT STAND OUT FROM EVERYTHING ELSE. And, boy, is Robin Williams terrific."
Ben Lyons, At The Movies
"A crazy, foul-mouthed black comedy that blows up every rule of taste and common sense and somehow gets away with it."
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
"The World's Greatest Dad is an original, brilliantly funny masterwork. Robin Williams gives the best performance of the year in one of the best movies of the year."
Paul Fischer, Dark Horizons
"Scandalously entertaining!"
Aaron Hillis, Village Voice
Synopsis
A thoughtful but outrageous comedy from Bobcat Goldthwait, WORLD'S GREATEST DAD is a story about a man that learns the things you want most may not be the things that make you happy, and that being lonely is not necessarily the same as being alone.
Robin Williams stars as Lance Clayton, a man who has learned to settle. He dreamed of being a rich and famous writer, but has only managed to make it as a high school poetry teacher. His only son Kyle (Daryl Sabara) is an insufferable jackass who won't give his father the time of day. He is dating Claire (Alexie Gilmore), the school's adorable art teacher, but she doesn't want to get serious -- or even acknowledge publicly that they are dating.
Then, in the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy and greatest opportunity of his life. He is suddenly faced with the possibility of all the fame, fortune and popularity he ever dreamed of, if he can only live with the knowledge of how he got there.
Written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait, WORLD'S GREATEST DAD stars Robin Williams, Alexie Gilmore, Daryl Sabara, Geoff Pierson, Henry Simmons and Mitzi McCall. The film was produced by Tim Perrell, Howard Gertler, Sean McKittrick and Richard Kelly and co-produced by Sarah de Sa Rego.