Review – World’s Greatest Dad

Director Bobcat Goldthwait really seems to love movies based on awkward situations. This time around, a middle-aged high school teacher (Robin Williams) spends all of "act one" dealing with rejected manuscripts, a slipping-away girlfriend and – worst of all – his creepy asshole son. But when the kid dies from autoerotic asphyxiation, dad rearranges the scene and types a note so the misadventure looks like a simple suicide. When the note is published in the school paper, our hero suddenly finds himself the "ghost writer" recipient of the praise and adulation his actual writing never merited. Though the ending went where I hoped it wouldn't, I concede that it made a thought-provoking point or two about the need for validation from people whose opinions are invalid. Oh, and I should note that all three 8sails staff members who watched this movie (even part of it) had high-school-related nightmares afterward. Weird. Mildly amusing