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Robin Williams

Robin Williams
Born 21 July 1951, in Chicago, Illinois

<b>Wise words:</b> "See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time."

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”Ah yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.”



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Robin Williams - news / articles


  • Williams relished evil roles - 24 September 2010
    -Funnyman Robin Williams jumped at the chance to star in 2002 thrillers One Hour Photo and Insomnia after years of starring in family-friendly films.- -The actor was the star-turn in many hit 1990s kids movies, including Jumanji and Mrs. Doubtfire, but he admits he was


  • Williams dismisses Old Dogs backlash - 21 September 2010
    -Robin Williams has brushed off criticism of last year's (09) flop film Old Dogs, insisting he only made the kids' movie because it "paid the bills".- -The funnyman teamed up with John Travolta for the family-friendly picture, but it was panned by critics and only took


  • Williams attends weekly AA meetings - 20 September 2010
    -Funnyman Robin Williams still attends weekly Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings, four years after checking into rehab.- -The comedian has long battled a dependence on drink and relapsed in 2003 while filming The Big White in Alaska.- - He checked into rehab three year

Robin Williams - what members say


  • Good Morning, Vietnam
  • Good Morning, Vietnam review by from N. Yorkshire
    Rated - 4.0 stars Comedy ahead of its time 17 March 2004
    ...down Jimmy Young than Kenny Everett. So Cronauer - played with absolute zest by Robin Williams freed up to do pretty much whatever he wanted on set - had a tough time of Viet...   Read customer review
  • Dead Poets Society
  • Dead Poets Society review by A customer from Leicester, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars TOUCHING 7 July 2004
    ...Touching film with Robin Williams in one of his few `serious roles`. The film is slightly melancholy in places but ultimately uplifting. Bravo!...   Read customer review
  • The Birdcage
  • The Birdcage review by JediSi from Kent
    Rated - 5.0 stars I pierced the toast! 22 September 2007
    ...s has got to be one of the most hilarious movies ever made, next to Waking Ned. Robin Williams is exceptional but of course it is Nathan Lane who runs away with the show as t...   Read customer review

Robin Williams - filmography


  • Happy Feet 2 on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Pink,  Elizabeth Daily
    Director: George Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters The Mighty Sven, a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to brings together the penguin nations and their allies to set things right.
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,349 member
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  • Happy Feet 2 - 3D Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Pink,  Elizabeth Daily
    Director: George Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters The Mighty Sven, a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to brings together the penguin nations and their allies to set things right.
    3 stars out of 5 65% from 90 members
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  • Happy Feet 2 - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Pink,  Elizabeth Daily
    Director: George Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: £3.49
    Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters The Mighty Sven, a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to brings together the penguin nations and their allies to set things right.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 329 members
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  • Old Dogs on DVD (2010)
    Starring: John Travolta,  Robin Williams,  Kelly Preston
    Director: Walter Becker
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Two best friends -- one unlucky-in-love divorcee and the other a fun-loving bachelor -- have their lives turned upside down when they're unexpectedly charged with the care of seven-year-old twins while on the verge of the biggest business deal of their lives. The not-so-kid-savvy bachelors stumble ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 4,382 members
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  • World's Greatest Dad (2009)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Daryl Sabara,  Alexie Gilmore
    Director: Bobcat Goldthwait
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    "World's Greatest Dad" is a story about a man that learns the things you want most may not be the things that make you happy and that being lonely is not necessarily the same as being alone. Lance Clayton is a man who has learned to settle. He dreamed of being a rich and famous writer, but has only ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 155 members
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  • License to Wed - HD (2007)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Mandy Moore,  John Krasinski
    Director: Ken Kwapis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: £2.49
    An all-star cast inhabits this romantic comedy about a couple who must endure a humiliating obstacle course of a marriage-training program in order to gain permission to wed from their church's over-the-top reverend (Robin Williams). Hilarity follows as the lovebirds (Mandy Moore and THE OFFICE'S ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 206 members
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  • License to Wed on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Mandy Moore,  John Krasinski
    Director: Ken Kwapis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: £2.49
    In this charming romantic comedy, Ben and Sadie are a young engaged couple that hit a large bump on the road to their wedded bliss, in the form of Reverend Frank, the pastor of the church Sadie has been dreaming of getting married in her entire life. Reverend Frank has a "patented, foolproof ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 15,345 members
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  • License to Wed - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Mandy Moore,  John Krasinski
    Director: Ken Kwapis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: £2.49
    An all-star cast inhabits this romantic comedy about a couple who must endure a humiliating obstacle course of a marriage-training program in order to gain permission to wed from their church's over-the-top reverend (Robin Williams). Hilarity follows as the lovebirds (Mandy Moore and THE OFFICE'S ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,254 member
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  • August Rush on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Freddie Highmore,  Keri Russell,  Jonathan Rhys Meyers
    Director: Kirsten Sheridan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Freddie Highmore (CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY) stars as August Rush, a musically gifted boy who has spent his childhood in an orphanage. But August's parents are alive, and he travels to New York City to perform and search for his mother and father (Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Meyers).
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 18,316 members
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  • Happy Feet - Blu-ray (2006)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Hugh Jackman,  Nicole Kidman
    Director: George Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Set in the strange and beautiful world first explored in the 2005 documentary MARCH OF THE PENGUINS, George Miller's HAPPY FEET tells the story of Mumble (Elijah Wood), a tone-deaf Emperor Penguin who is unable to sing his 'heart song', the ritual required to win a mate (in this case, his beloved ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 2,374 members
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  • RV on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Cheryl Hines,  Jeff Daniels
    Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A family film for the Instant Messenger age, RV takes a humorous look at a mostly functional suburban family's attempt to get away from it all on a rare vacation. The always hilarious Robin Williams plays Bob Munro, a beaten-down middle manager who feels alienated from the family he works so hard ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 15,136 members
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  • RV - Blu-ray (2006)
    Starring: Joanna Levesque,  Cheryl Hines,  Will Arnett
    Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A family film for the Instant Messenger age, RV takes a humorous look at a mostly functional suburban family's attempt to get away from it all on a rare vacation. Robin Williams plays Bob Munro, a beaten-down middle manager who feels alienated from the family he works so hard to keep comfortable. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 985 members
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  • Happy Feet on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Hugh Jackman,  Nicole Kidman
    Director: George Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Emperor penguins are born to sing. All except young Mumble, who was born to dance... tap dance. Such un-penguin-like behaviour eventually gets Mumble kicked out of Emperor Land and into the big cold world. Joined by his Adelie Amigos and an all-knowing Rockhopper penguin names Lovelace, Mumble ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 38,504 members
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  • Happy Feet - HD (2006)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Hugh Jackman,  Nicole Kidman
    Director: George Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Set in the strange and beautiful world first explored in the 2005 documentary MARCH OF THE PENGUINS, George Miller's HAPPY FEET tells the story of Mumble (Elijah Wood), a tone-deaf Emperor Penguin who is unable to sing his 'heart song', the ritual required to win a mate (in this case, his beloved ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 349 members
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  • Robots on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Ewan McGregor,  Robin Williams,  Halle Berry
    Director: Chris Wedge,  Carlos Saldanha
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Set on a world populated entirely by robots, this is the story of a young genius, Rodney (Ewan McGregor), who wants to make robots capable of making the world a better place, but he finds his dream challenged by a corporate tyrant and a master inventor, Big Weld (Mel Brooks), while also being ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 53,959 members
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  • Noel on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Susan Sarandon,  Penelope Cruz,  Paul Walker
    Director: Chazz Palminteri
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    A first-rate cast comes together for this collection of intertwining tales of lonely New Yorkers reaching out to each other on Christmas Eve. Susan Sarandon plays Rose, a widowed editor who spends way too much time at the hospital bed of her Alzheimers-stricken mother. Robin Williams is the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 3,901 members
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  • The Final Cut on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Mira Sorvino,  James Caviezel
    Director: Omar Naim
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Set in a world with memory implants, Robin Williams plays a cutter, someone with the power of final edit over people's recorded histories. His latest assignment is one that puts him in danger.
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 15,496 members
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  • Death To Smoochy on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Edward Norton,  Tim MacMenamin
    Director: Danny De Vito
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Robin Williams goes berserk as Rainbow Randolph, the disgraced host of a children's television show, in director Danny DeVito's fast-paced satire, DEATH TO SMOOCHY. Busted by the Feds for accepting a bribe to get a child on his show, Randolph gets booted from his network, Kidnet, and is replaced by ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 3,139 members
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  • Robin Williams - Live On Broadway on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Robin Williams
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Recorded live on July 24th, 2002, Robin Williams' Broadway performances were the last stop on a 26-date U.S. tour. Riffing on just about every contemporary subject under the sun, Williams tackles politics, sex, religion, health, rocket science and a whole lot more! An Academy Award winner and huge ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 3,825 members
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  • Insomnia on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Al Pacino,  Robin Williams,  Hilary Swank
    Director: Christopher Nolan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    In a remote Alaskan town called Nightmute, the murder of a teenage girl has shocked the tight-knit community. The Los Angeles Police Department sends two of its cops--both under investigation by Internal Affairs--to try to solve the crime in Christopher Nolan's film based on Erik Skjoldbjaerg's ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 20,851 members
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  • One Hour Photo on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Connie Nielsen,  Erin Daniels
    Director: Mark Romanek
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Viewed through family photographs, it would seem most people live joyous, leisurely lives. Sy Parrish (Robin Williams), who makes this observation, adversely leads a lonely existence, operating a photo lab in a SavMart department store. To escape his dreary reality, he fixates on the photos of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 14,712 members
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  • Jakob The Liar on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Alan Arkin,  Armin Mueller-Stahl
    Director: Peter Kassovitz
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Jakob is a poor Jewish cafe owner in Nazi occupied Poland in 1944. He accidentally hears good news about the war on a radio and spreads this to his depressed friends who have heard no news since 1939. Unfortunately the rumour also spreads that Jakob has a radio and this is an offence punishable by ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,145 member
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  • Bicentennial Man on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Sam Neill,  Embeth Davidtz
    Director: Chris Columbus
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Andrew Martin (Williams) is a household android whose intended function is thrown for a loop when he begins to feel genuine human emotions. Over the next two centuries the resulting dealings with his adopted family and new acquaintances provide the film with ample opportunities to raise important ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 5,308 members
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  • What Dreams May Come on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Annabella Sciorra,  Max von Sydow
    Director: Vincent Ward
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    One man's visually compelling journey through heaven, hell, and other worlds. Chris Nielsen (Williams) dies but cannot rest until he finds and joins his deceased wife (Sciorra) in the afterlife with the help of a friendly spirit (Gooding Jr.). Academy Award winner, Best Visual Effects, nominated ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 5,576 members
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  • Patch Adams on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Monica Potter,  Philip Seymour Hoffman
    Director: Tom Shadyac
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Tom Shadyac's (ACE VENTURA) film tells the true story of Hunter "Patch" Adams (Robin Williams), an aspiring doctor in the 1970s who attempted to treat his patients with a medicine that modern science had totally disregarded: humor. After a stint in a mental hospital where he discovers his need to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 5,753 members
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  • Good Will Hunting on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Matt Damon,  Ben Affleck
    Director: Gus Van Sant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    A South Boston whiz kid elects to clean the halls of learning rather than enter them, slumming his way through life as a janitor at MIT. But his natural ability to unravel complex equations attracts the attention of a professor who won't let him quit, a beautiful Harvard student who wants to save ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 23,146 members
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  • Flubber on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Marcia Gay Harden
    Director: Les Mayfield
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Forgetful Professor Phillip Brainard inadvertently creates "flying rubber" in his lab, misses his wedding date repeatedly, and is menaced by bungling goons hired by a jealous rival out to steal his lady and his invention. Producer and co-screenwriter John Hughes renders the Disney classic, "The ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 6,931 members
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  • Fathers' Day on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Billy Crystal,  Julia Louis-Dreyfus
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Desperate to track down her wayward teenage son, a woman contacts a pair of old flames and tells each that he's the boy's father, setting in motion a forced-buddy, on-the-road romp. Billy Crystal and Robin Williams shared the screen for the first time in this remake of the 1984 French farce "Les ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 1,133 member
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  • Deconstructing Harry (1997)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Demi Moore,  Robin Williams
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Woody Allen wrote, directed, and stars in this very dark comedy about a novelist, Harry Block, who says with admirable honesty, I'm a guy who can't function well in life, but I can in art. So far, Harry has made his way through six psychiatrists and three marriages (one, conveniently enough, with ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 4,191 members
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  • Good Will Hunting - Blu-ray (1997)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Matt Damon,  Ben Affleck
    Director: Gus Van Sant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    A South Boston whiz kid elects to clean the halls of learning rather than enter them, slumming his way through life as a janitor at MIT. But his natural ability to unravel complex equations attracts the attention of a professor who won't let him quit, a beautiful Harvard student who wants to save ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 82% from 610 members
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  • Jack on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Diane Lane,  Jennifer Lopez
    Director: Francis Ford Coppola
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This bittersweet story of childhood innocence and friendship stars Robin Williams as Jack Powell, a boy who grows four times faster than normal--by the time Jack reaches his 10th birthday, he looks like a 40-year-old man. After years of being tutored at home by Mr. Woodruff (Bill Cosby), Jack ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 4,961 members
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  • The Birdcage on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Gene Hackman,  Dianne Wiest
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director Mike Nichols teams up with his former partner/screenwriter Elaine May for the first time in many years and for the first time together in films to create this sophisticated, remake of the phenomenally popular French musical farce La Cage aux Folles that stars Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 9,329 members
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  • Nine Months on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Hugh Grant,  Julianne Moore,  Tom Arnold
    Director: Chris Columbus
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Samuel Faulkner's (Hugh Grant) fruitful, happy life completely falls apart when long-time girlfriend Rebecca (Julianne Moore) suddenly announces she's pregnant. The thought of fatherhood and responsibility terrifies Samuel--who just happens to be a child psychologist. Although he does try hard to ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 7,651 members
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  • Jumanji on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Kirsten Dunst,  Bonnie Hunt
    Director: Joe Johnston
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A magical board game serves as a door to another dimension in this adventure fantasy based on Chris Van Allsburg's award-winning children's book. When a pair of orphans discover the game and start playing it, they unwittingly unleash a man (Robin Williams) who's been trapped inside--as well as an ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 16,550 members
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  • Jumanji - Blu-ray (1995)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Kirsten Dunst,  Bonnie Hunt
    Director: Joe Johnston
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A magical board game serves as a door to another dimension in this adventure fantasy based on Chris Van Allsburg's award-winning children's book. When a pair of orphans discover the game and start playing it, they unwittingly unleash a man (Robin Williams) who's been trapped inside--as well as an ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 218 members
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  • Aladdin And The King Of Thieves on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Jim Cummings,  Linda Larkin
    Director: Tad Stones
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    This direct-to-video third wish in Disney's Aladdin trilogy marks the return of Robin Williams as the voice of the Genie. Aladdin's battle with the King of Thieves and his at-long-last marriage to Princess Jasmine also features the vocal talents of Gilbert Gottfried, Jerry Orbach, Scott Weinger, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 3,846 members
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  • Mrs Doubtfire on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Sally Field,  Robin Williams,  Pierce Brosnan
    Director: Chris Columbus
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When an irresponsible and child-like dad (Robin Williams) is barred from seeing his kids, he disguises himself as a woman and applies for the job of housekeeper for his ex-wife (Sally Field). The disguise of a sturdy matron works a beneficial change on him as well...but how long can he keep the act up
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 15,270 members
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  • Toys on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Joan Cusack,  Michael Gambon
    Director: Barry Levinson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Robin Williams stars in this surreal anti-war fantasy directed by Barry Levinson (RAIN MAN, DINER). Williams plays Leslie Zevo, the son of a fun-loving toymaker. Leslie and his sister, Alsatia (Joan Cusack,) grew up surrounded by their father's whimsical creations in the fantastic factory that he ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 2,085 members
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  • Aladdin on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Scott Weinger,  Linda Larkin
    Director: Ron Clements,  John Musker
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Disney brings a whole new world vividly to life once again in this musical story from the Arabian Nights. Aladdin, an eager genie (with the voice of Robin Williams) and a sultan's daughter take a magic carpet ride through a fireworks display of incredible animation. Direct-to-video sequel: "The ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 19,818 members
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  • Hook on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Dustin Hoffman,  Julia Roberts,  Bob Hoskins
    Director: Steven Spielberg
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Steven Spielberg filters J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan through a distinctly 1990s sensibility in Hook. Peter Pan has become Peter Banning (Robin Williams), a 40-year-old mergers and acquisitions lawyer with a permanent scowl on his face and a cellular phone in his belt. Banning has lost any memory of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 13,403 members
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  • Hook - Blu-ray (1991)
    Starring: Dustin Hoffman,  Julia Roberts,  Bob Hoskins
    Director: Steven Spielberg
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Director Steven Spielberg brings J.M. Barrie's PETER PAN to the screen with a delightfully modernized twist. Forty-year-old Peter (Robin Williams) has grown up to be a workaholic lawyer with more affection for his cell phone than his wife and two children. When the family travels to England to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 199 members
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  • Dead Again on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Kenneth Branagh,  Andy Garcia,  Derek Jacobi
    Director: Kenneth Branagh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In Kenneth Branagh's stylish suspense film, Branagh stars as Mike Church, a Los Angeles detective who is drawn into the life of Grace (Emma Thompson), a woman with amnesia who is plagued by disturbing nightmares. Attempts to help her regain her memory bring them to Franklyn Madson (Derek Jacobi), a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,346 member
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  • The Fisher King on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Jeff Bridges,  Mercedes Ruehl
    Director: Terry Gilliam
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jack Lucas (Jeff Bridges) a self-obsessed 'shock jock' who thinks he has it all, is about to hit rock bottom. The cult personality spends his time on the radio insulting and berating his listeners, but when one caller takes Jack's advice literally and opens fire on a New York City nightspot, Jack ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 8,211 members
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  • Awakenings on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Robert De Niro,  John Heard
    Director: Penny Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on the true story of a research physician who uses an experimental drug to 'awaken' the catatonic victims of a rare sleeping sickness. The first patient to receive the drug (De Niro in an astounding performance) is filled with awe and enthusiasm that teaches the introverted doctor to value ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 10,197 members
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  • Cadillac Man on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Tim Robbins,  Pamela Reed
    Director: Roger Donaldson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When one car salesman gets the opportunity to redeem himself from all his sleazy sales pitches, financial philandering, and relentless womanizing, he is forced to confront all his demons in one very long afternoon.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 571 members
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  • Dead Poets Society - Blu-ray (1989)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Ethan Hawke,  Robert Sean Leonard
    Director: Peter Weir
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    John Keating is an eccentric teacher who returns to teach in his childhood school. The message he gives to his students is to experience life for themselves. Consequently, several pupils reintroduce 'Dead Poets Society' of which Keating had been a past member. Secret, late night meetings take place ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 688 members
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  • Dead Poets Society on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Ethan Hawke,  Robert Sean Leonard
    Director: Peter Weir
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Robin Williams toned down his usually manic comic approach in this successful period drama. In 1959, the Welton Academy is a staid but well-respected prep school where education is a pragmatic and rather dull affair. Several of the students, however, have their thoughts on the learning process (and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 15,429 members
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  • Good Morning, Vietnam on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Forest Whitaker,  Robert Wuhl
    Director: Barry Levinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In 1965, there isn't much for military personnel serving in Vietnam to smile about--that is, until deejay Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams) takes to the airwaves. In GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM, which is based on a true story, Cronauer is a nonconformist with a wicked sense of humor who is transferred ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 12,586 members
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  • The Adventures of Baron Munchausen on DVD (1988)
    Starring: John Neville,  Jonathan Pryce,  Eric Idle
    Director: Terry Gilliam
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    In TIME BANDITS, director Terry Gilliam told a fantastical story filled with heroes and villains seen through the eyes of a small boy. In BRAZIL, Gilliam focused on a fantasy world created by a young man trapped in a totalitarian state. With THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN, Gilliam tells the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 6,331 members
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  • Seize the Day on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  William Hickey,  Glenne Headly
    Director: Fielder Cook
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Tommy Wilhelm is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as he heads to New York to pick up the pieces of his life. He's always been able to sell, but caught in a downward spiral, he must, in addition, face the father who ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 83 members
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  • Club Paradise (1986)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Peter O'Toole,  Rick Moranis
    Director: Harold Ramis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Pack your bags for Club Paradise, the Caribbean resort where the good times and laughter come at you in waves. Academy Award winner Robin Williams steers their crazed course of this tropical romp as an ex-Chicago fireman who uses a sizable disability settlement to transform a remote island watering ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 52 members
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  • The Survivors on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Walter Matthau,  Robin Williams,  Jerry Reed
    Director: Michael Ritchie
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Michael Ritchie's comedy concerns an unlikely friendship that forms between two down-on-their-luck men who have just recently lost their jobs. Donald Quinelle (Robin Williams) was fired by his boss's parrot because his boss couldn't bear to confront Donald with the terrible news. Meanwhile, Sonny ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 325 members
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  • Mork And Mindy - Series 3 (4 discs) on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Pam Dawber
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    What began as a spin-off of popular sitcom HAPPY DAYS evolved into superstardom for Robin Williams in the pleasantly bizarre 1970s television series MORK AND MINDY. Hatching from an egg-shaped spacecraft, alien visitor Mork (Williams) lands on Earth to investigate the planet's inhabitants and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 97 members
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  • Mork And Mindy - Series 2 (4 discs) on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Pam Dawber
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    What began as a spin-off of popular sitcom HAPPY DAYS evolved into superstardom for Robin Williams in the pleasantly bizarre 1970s television series MORK AND MINDY. Hatching from an egg-shaped spacecraft, alien visitor Mork (Williams) lands on Earth to investigate the planet's inhabitants and ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 136 members
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Robin Williams facts

5 most recent films

The Big Wedding - 4.0 stars
Happy Feet 2 - 3.5 stars
Happy Feet 2 - 3D Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Happy Feet 2 - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Old Dogs - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Good Will Hunting - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Mork And Mindy - Series 2 - 4.0 stars
Mork And Mindy - Series 3 - 3.5 stars
Good Will Hunting - 3.5 stars
Aladdin - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Dreams With Sharp Teeth - 2.0 stars
The Big Wedding - 4.0 stars
The Aristocrats - 2.5 stars
Popeye - 2.5 stars
Seize the Day - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Pam Dawber - 15 times - show films
Elijah Wood - 8 times - show films
Matt Damon - 7 times - show films
Hank Azaria - 6 times - show films
Jeffrey Jacquet - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 12 times - show films
George Miller - 8 times - show films
Howard Storm - 5 times - show films
Harvey Medlinsky - 5 times - show films
Ken Kwapis - 4 times - show films