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The Fisher King **** (1991, Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, Mercedes Ruehl, Amanda Plummer) – Classic Movie Review 2876

Director Terry Gilliam’s truly appealing 1991 comedy fantasy drama is an impressively ambitious, deeply heart-tugging movie. Jeff Bridges stars as a mean-minded but popular radio DJ who falls apart as suicidally despondent after a mad […]

Sep, 03

Awakenings **** (1990, Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard, Penelope Ann Miller, Max von Sydow) – Classic Movie Review 2868

Director Penny Marshall’s true-story 1990 drama stars Robin Williams as a timid doctor, who, along with a kindly nurse (Julie Kavner), awakes a group of patients in a Bronx hospital from a sleep-like trance. As […]

Aug, 31

FernGully: The Last Rainforest *** (1992, voices of Jonathan Ward, Samantha Mathis, Tim Curry, Christian Slater, Robin Williams) – Classic Movie Review 2660

Director Bill Kroyer’s commendably green 1992 Australian-American fantasy environmental film is a musical mix of animation and reality. It is set within the expanses of a great fictitious Australian rain-forest, whose magical fairy inhabitants fight to save their […]

Jul, 02

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen **** (1988, John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman, Robin Williams) – Classic Movie Review 2471

Co-writer/director Terry Gilliam’s dazzling and spectacular 1988 fantasy comedy adventure epic stars ideally cast theatre actor John Neville. He is on commanding form as Baron Munchausen, the 18th-century Prussian aristocrat who travels around the universe, enjoys wartime exploits […]

May, 11

Aladdin ***** (1992, voices of Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin, Jonathan Freeman, Frank Welker, Douglas Seale) – Classic Movie Review 2218

Co-writers/producers/directors John Musker and Ron Clements’s double-Oscar-winning 1992 animation smash is one of Walt Disney’s finest – and funniest, thanks to Robin Williams. Though it’s in voice only, it’s one of the roles he’s remembered […]

Feb, 27

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb ***½ (2014, Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Dan Stevens, Rebel Wilson, Ricky Gervais) – Movie Review

The British Museum provides the obvious but essential backdrop to the fun as Ben Stiller’s amiable curator-guard Larry Daley and his New York museum gang come to London for the third and final episode. The British […]

Dec, 17

The Face of Love ***½ (2014, Annette Bening, Ed Harris, Robin Williams) – Movie Review

Annette Bening is happily married to her perfect partner in Ed Harris, who promptly dies. A couple of years later she meets and falls for an artist/ teacher (also played by Ed Harris), a man who […]

Dec, 11

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