Sundance 2009: "World's Greatest Dad."
Bobcat Goldthwait's not what you would call a natural filmmaker -- while "World's Greatest Dad" isn't half as clumsy looking as his 2006 Sundance bestiality-themed rom-com "Stay," it's still rough as all hell and reliant on handfuls of endless music montages. But as a screenwriter, he's among the best in what's its own subcategory these days: the sentimental center/outrageous set-up flick, the movie genre equivalent of the hooker with the heart of gold. And the premise of "World's Greatest Dad" is near-brilliant: A high school English teacher with unfulfilled dreams of being a successful author, Lance (Robin Williams) is the father of sullen teenager Kyle (Daryl Sabara) whose only interests seem to be demeaning his sad-sack single parent and his lone friend Andrew (Evan Martin) and masturbating. While spicing up the latter with some autoerotic asphyxiation, Kyle accidentally strangles to death, and rather than let that be the way the...
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