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Lance Clayton wishes for a life of wealth and is a renowned author, but at present Lance is just a high school poetry teacher. His only son Kyle is an idiot. He is always frosty to his father. Lance dates another teacher teaching art at school but she isn’t really serious about it, or even does not want to announce they';;;re dating. After a bizarre accident, he suddenly has the opportunity to reap all the money and fame that he often dreams of, if he can only live with the knowledge of how he got there. What does Lance ultimately choose?
Offering Robin Williams his richest role in memory while serving up a nice cold bowl of shock soup for the audience, World's Greatest Dad is a surprisingly smart and severely twisted dark comedy from comic Bobcat Goldthwait.
Goldthwait's script turns into a surprisingly restrained, focused sendup of the blind adulation often bestowed on flawed personalities once they croak too soon.
July 06, 2010
London Evening Standard
Goldthwait has given it a title that will make some shy away. But don't. It's a comedy about the particularly American capacity to create legends out of the dead, and it's sharper than most.
September 29, 2010
San Francisco Chronicle
There's more going on here than the age-old struggle between maturity and its surly teen antithesis.