Lance Clayton (Robin Williams) is a writer, he has written five novels, several stories and countless articles. The problem is he has never been published. He lives at home with his son, Kyle (Daryl Sabara). Kyle is a loud arrogant brat who is a loser at school, where Lance also happens to teach an unpopular poetry class. Lance is in a discreet relationship with the high schools art teacher Clare (Alexi Gilmore). Although he tries incredibly hard, Lance just can't relate to his son, or get a break as a writer, that is, until an unexpected turn of events flips his misfortune into the chance hes been looking for.
Robin Williams has been attached to a string of really poor films recently, such as Old Dogs, RV and License to Wed, and although he is trying to shake off his "family movie" image this too was a rather poor film. None of the characters are likable, the situations are far from believeable and the writer/director Bobcat Goldthwait (of Police Academy fame) pulls out every tired cliche he can think of.
The films one redeeming feature is it quite well depicts how easy it can be to distort and manipulate peoples views and create mass hysteria.
Rating: 2/5
Max
Dude I just saw "One Hour Photo" Loved it!
ReplyDeleteRobin Williams was awesome in that!
That was newish right?
Perhaps he's just sick of the intensive roles and wants to just have fun on the set.
or maybe he sold out.
One Hour Photo was 2002 so was insomnia...they were his last two really great films
ReplyDeletegonna disagree Max.. I liked it
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