World's Greatest Dad

As the saying goes, be careful what you wish for. In World’s Greatest Dad, a wickedly funny dark comedy, Lance Clayton (Robin Williams) discovers that what he covets most in life may not be what makes him happy, and being lonely is not necessarily the same as being alone. Lance is a high school poetry teacher who dreams of becoming a rich and famous writer. A single father, he tries desperately to connect with his teenage son, Kyle (Daryl Sabara), an insolent, hormone-raging smartass who defies his dad at every turn. Lance exercises his own hormones with Claire (Alexie Gilmore), a painfully adorable art teacher who may have her eyes on a bigger prize. After a freak accident, Lance suddenly faces both the worst tragedy of his life, and the greatest opportunity. Determined to make lemonade from life’s lemons, Lance treads a path that could land him everything he’s ever dreamed of, as long as he can live with the knowledge of how he got there. Alexie Gilmore is cheeky and Daryl Sabara is droll incarnate but it’s the outstanding performance by Robin Williams that propels World’s Greatest Dad. Writer/director and longtime-comedian Bobcat Goldthwait returns to Sundance with another lusciously perverse, and refreshingly original comedy that tackles love, loss, and our curious quest for infamy.
CAST
Robin Williams, Daryl Sabara, Alexie Gilmore, Tom Kenny, Geoffrey Pierson, Henry Simmons, Toby Huss

Bobcat Goldthwait - Bobcat Goldthwait wrote and directed Shakes the Clown, Sleeping Dogs Lie, and his latest film, World's Greatest Dad. He has also directed many television shows, including Chappelle's Show, The Man Show, and Jimmy Kimmel Live. As a comic, he had appeared on the David Letterman show by the time he was 20 and has had three HBO specials since then. As an actor, he has appeared in innumerable embarrassing movies and was very popular during the 1980s. He greatly prefers directing.

Screenings:

Sun. Jan 18 5:30 p.m. - WORLD18LE Library Center Theatre, Park City
Tue. Jan 20 8:30 a.m. - WORLD20PM Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
Tue. Jan 20 6:00 p.m. - WORLD20WE Tower Theatre, SLC
Thu. Jan 22 2:30 p.m. - TBONE22PA Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
Sat. Jan 24 11:30 a.m. - WORLD24RD Racquet Club, Park City