Post Here: Favorite Robin Williams Movie/TV role

[LynneSin]

Without a doubt my favorite will always be "Awakenings". It was one of those great films where Williams played a more serious tone portraying a character based on Dr Oliver Sacks. I thought he and Robert DeNiro had great chemistry together in that movie. In the end he took Marge Simpson (well ok it was Julie Kavner, who does the voice of Marge Simpson) out for coffee.

[charlie and algernon]

1. an utterly heartbreaking scene:

[Skittles]

2. One Hour Photo

he was very creepy

[Throd]

9. Agree. Very convincing in his portrayal. It gave me a new respect for him as an artist.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

21. yes, it was so different from many of his characters

I love great acting.

But I can't pick one favorite....

I think I need to see What Dreams May Come and Awakenings again, I'm really tearing up just thinking of him in those films.

[In_The_Wind]

3. What Dreams May Come

[orleans]

10. did you know...

(regarding the book & the author)

"Matheson stated in an interview, "I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers to lose their fear of death – the finest tribute any writer could receive."[1]
"In an introductory note, Matheson explains that the characters are the only fictional component of the novel. Almost everything else is based on research, and the end of the novel includes a lengthy bibliography.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_dreams_may_come

i loved that movie!

[Xyzse]

15. Loved this movie. I even liked Bicentennial Man.

[Aristus]

28. Tragically appropriate.

The pain and anguish of losing someone to suicide...

[Polly Hennessey]

38. What Dreams May Come

Oh, thank you, In_The_Wind. This is my favorite Robin Williams movie and the above scene is wonderful.

[In_The_Wind]

39. My wish is that heaven will be a happy place like this for all of us.

[CanSocDem]

41. My favorite as well.

Thanks for posting that clip.

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[herding cats]

4. Good Will Hunting

He showed a depth of his acting which surprised many.

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Then there was The Birdcage, a personal favorite of mine.

#t=74

[BlancheSplanchnik]

23. omg, I love those too.

Birdcage. Loved that.

*sigh*

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

44. My two favorite bits from the Birdcage

I can't find on Youtube. The first is when Armand is trying to teach Albert to be more manly:

Armand: Walk like John Wayne. You're a big fan.

Albert: (After he walks like John Wayne.) No good?

Armand: Actually, it's perfect. I just never realized John Wayne walked like that.

And the scene in which Armand has Albert finally sign the palimony agreement. Armand is saying, "I love you, Albert" while not actually using those words, but the message is unmistakable.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

46. that's another one I have to see again.

I love the original in French too.

[GoCubsGo]

5. The Birdcage

Loved him, Nathan Lane, and Hank Azaria. One of my most favorite movies ever.

[cyberswede]

7. Seconded!

I just watched this with my 13 year-old this summer - he loved it, and was very sad to hear the news today.

[CBGLuthier]

5. A little known one, Bop Gun an episode of Homicide: Life on the Streets

He and his wife and two kids were tourists when the wife was killed. one of the most devastating hours of TV ever.

Jake Gyllenhaal played their son as his dad, Stephen Gyllenhaal directed the episode.

A small clip from the episode

[orleans]

8. i loved him in good will hunting

and what dreams may come had me crying from the beginning all the way through--it really struck a chord in me

i loved him in Hook

and his wonderful, uncredited appearance in the 2004 movie noel

and in world's greatest dad--the scene where he finds his son is dead is heartwrenching and the under pressure scene as he runs to the pool:

[BlancheSplanchnik]

22. wow.

I never saw that film.

I'll have to.




Gee, can't believe this.... *sigh*

[orleans]

29. which film? n/t

[BlancheSplanchnik]

30. world's greatest dad.

That clip tells me I should see it.

[orleans]

31. it's a bit of an odd/strange movie

my daughter couldn't stand it
my friend (a film critic!) won't see it
maybe prepare yourself before you watch it.

have you ever seen that other movie i mentioned? noel?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

33. no, I never heard of Noel.

I actually haven't seen hook, but now I want to.



I wish he didn't have to leave.....

[charlie and algernon]

11. "Make your life spectacular. I know I did."

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[mulsh]

12. this one, The Fisher King, Richard Legravnese wrote, Terry Gilliam directed

Robin Williams brought the words to life. this is my favorite scene.

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[Throd]

19. This is my second choice. A brilliant movie.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

13. so many great roles. It is hard to choose

The psychiatrist in Good Will Hunting, Patch Adams, Good Morning Vietnam and his r
ole as Merrit Rook in a Law and Order episode, just to name a few

[hibbing]

14. The World According to Garp

Thought I would post this one, a tragic movie. I'm glad to see this thread and see some that I had forgotten about and some I have not seen.

Peace

[LynneSin]

24. I forgot about that one and it was one of my favorite John Irving movies

I adored John Lithgrow as Roberta Muldoon, the former Philadelphia Eagle Tight End now Transgender Woman.

And the Ellen Jamesians- weren't they an annoying group of people whose cause was so lost from the real message. It was sweet when Garp met the real Ellen James in the end.

[Xyzse]

16. There really are many.

Like "In the Wind" I enjoyed What Dreams May Come. I actually got that a long time ago in dvd.

I even saw Moscow in the Hudson, which was fun with him.

Any how, I don't know. He plays off the wall characters that are dreamers.
So, I enjoyed Bicentennial Man quite a bit, where he played a robot who fell in love with his prior master's grand daughter(or was it just daughter?), and died just a little after he was declared a man.

[TeamPooka]

18. Moscow on the Hudson, directed by Paul Mazursky. Then everything else.

[kwassa]

37. I got to tell him how much I liked him in Moscow on the Hudson.

He really appreciated the comment.

I thought that was a great movie, and would like to see it again.

[DFW]

20. Someone finally forced me to quote Sarah Palin

Any of them. All of them.

Though his roles in Dead Poets Society and Good Will Hunting were mesmerizing, it's the Genie in Aladdin for me.

Still, I can't get over his portrayal of a friend of mine in one of his most famous roles. He gained worldwide fame with this role, but the real irony is that he played himself more than he portrayed my friend, who always says, "if I had done a third of the things that Robin Williams' characterization of me did in the film, I would have spent the rest of my life in Leavenworth."

[Shrek]

25. Adrian Cronauer

Mr. Keating a very close second.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

35. My favorite, too.

LMAO'd through a lot of that. He was a funny guy - so sad he's gone.

[Coventina]

26. For me it was "Dead Poets Society"

I was a fledgling adult and it had a huge impact on me.

[NewJeffCT]

27. I never liked Mork & Mindy when I was younger

maybe because it started when I was 11 going on 12 in 1978, but I probably didn't quite understand his brand of humor at that age.

However, when I was a freshman in college, a guy in my dorm had recorded his Live at the Met performance, and that just blew me away, and I did a complete 180 in my opinion of him. So, I'd rate his 1985 or 86 performance in Live at the Met as my favorite.

He had so many memorable roles over the years, that I can't really narrow it down to a single performance.

[PennyK]

32. I have a very BAD movie he was in

So bad it's hilarious! "August Rush." I was dating a guy who was an extra in this. It's an insane story about two musicians who meet, fall madly in love, have a one-night stand, and then go on about their busy schedules. She gets pregnant, and although the film seems to take place in the modern world these two have no way in which to contact each other (even though they're both somewhat famous). Long story short, she has the child, who gets given up for adoption, and at some point, he wanders into New York City and falls under the tutelage of an evil Fagin type - who is played by Robin Williams, first seen playing a flute atop the Washington Square Park arch. It's hilariously terrible! More stuff that makes no sense than you could imagine. To me the worst thing is when a story breaks its own premises and boy, does this one do it!

[Initech]

34. Controversy alert: I was one of the few who liked "Death To Smoochy"

The movie was one of those "shitty movie with a great cast that went to waste" kind of flicks. But it has its moments, and Robin Williams was a total sleazebag in this movie and it was a real departure from his usual flare. Here's a clip:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

36. That movie sucked, but Williams managed to be funny anyhow.

[Ron Obvious]

42. I may be the only person on earth who liked Popeye

I'm not saying it's my favourite Robin Williams movie, but I really enjoyed Popeye for the weird little film that it was. I saw Garp several times when it came out too.

[LynneSin]

43. He was an amazing Popeye and Shelly Duvall rocked as Olive Oyl

But the rest of the movie sucked.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

45. Oh yeah, Shelley Duvall was born to play Olive Oyl.

And there were bits and pieces of the movie I liked. I would just liked to have done a major re-write on the script.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

47. Awakenings is my favorite

He's brilliant in both "The Fisher King" and "Good Will Hunting", but watching Williams try to cure his Parkinson's patients, only to see them all fall back "asleep" is heartbreaking.

My least favorite Williams movie? Club Paradise. You'd think with Williams, Peter O'Toole, a bunch of SCTVers, and Harold Ramis directing that it could.not.miss. ... It misses. Badly.

[R B Garr]

48. Hook

I just love that movie. I loved the reference about finding your happy place. It's been years since I've seen it, but I just really love it. Such great acting all the way around. "Why Peter, you're a pirate" -- one of the lines by Peter's film mother after she hears about his corporate raiding. Classic.

We just finished watching Jumanji on Netflix. I had never seen it, and it was sad to see him in his prime. We decided to go back and watch all his movies, as I'm sure so many people are doing now. Some great suggestions in this thread. I can't recall seeing Bird Cage, and many here seem to like it, so thanks for the suggestions.

We looked through the Robin William movies on Netflix, and they don't have a huge selection. For instance, they don't have Good Will Hunting or Dead Poet's Society. I'm on a mission to find them in stock somewhere.

He was so loveable and so talented.

[Archae]

49. The Genie!

He PWNED that movie, "Aladdin."