World's Greatest Dad
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| Directed by | Bobcat Goldthwait |
| Produced by | Howard Gertler Ted Hamm Richard Kelly Sean McKittrick Tim Perell |
| Written by | Bobcat Goldthwait |
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Robin Williams Daryl Sabara Alexie Gilmore Evan Martin Lorraine Nicholson Henry Simmons Geoff Pierson |
| Music by | Gerald Brunskill |
| Cinematography | Horacio Marquínez |
| Edited by | Jason Stewart |
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| Distributed by | Magnolia Pictures |
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99 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $10 million |
| Box office | $295,750 |
World's Greatest Dad is a 2009 American satirical black comedy film, directed and written by Bobcat Goldthwait. It stars Robin Williams, Daryl Sabara, and Alexie Gilmore. The film was released on July 24, 2009 on video on demand providers before its limited theatrical release on August 21, 2009.
Lance Clayton (Robin Williams) is a single father and high school English teacher. He dreams of becoming a famous writer, but his previous novels have all been rejected by publishers. His 15-year-old son Kyle (Daryl Sabara) is a pornography-obsessed underachiever who despises and is annoyed by everyone, especially his father. Kyle is a student at the school where Lance teaches an unpopular poetry class. His only friend is Andrew, a fellow student who spends his evenings at the Claytons' house trying to avoid his alcoholic mother. Kyle's consistently poor academic performance and vile behavior gain the attention of the school principal (Geoff Pierson), who advises Lance that Kyle should transfer to a special-needs school. Lance is in a non-committal relationship with a younger teacher named Claire (Alexie Gilmore), who is spending time with a fellow teacher named Mike (Henry Simmons), whose writing class is more successful than Lance's. On nights when Claire cancels their dates and he is alone, Lance bonds with his elderly neighbor Bonnie (Mitzi McCall).
One night, after Kyle and Lance spend an evening with Claire, Lance discovers that Kyle has died in an autoerotic asphyxiation accident in his bedroom. To avoid embarrassing his son, he stages Kyle’s death as a suicide. He writes a suicide note on Kyle’s computer and hangs his son’s body in the closet. A classmate later obtains the suicide note from police records and publishes it in the school newspaper. The note strikes a chord with the students and faculty, and suddenly many students claim to have been friends with Kyle and are touched by how deep and intelligent he shows himself to be in his writings.
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