What Robin Williams movies did you see in the theater?

Cafe Society
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Pretty much everyone is still reeling from the death of Robin Williams.

It got me thinking about which of his movies I saw when they were in the theater. I find the movie theater experience very powerful and the freshest, obviously newest way to see an actor or director’s work.

For Williams, I saw:

Mrs. Doubtfire
Jumanji
Aladdin
Hamlet
The Birdcage
Good Will Hunting
A.I.

Pretty good track record. I wasn’t a fan of the Birdcage and Mrs. Doubtfire is more cute than great, but the reset are quite solid.

2

Good Morning Vietnam
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Awakenings
The Fisher King
Hook
Toys
Mrs. Doubtfire
Jumanji
AI

(Seen a bunch of others but not in the theatre)

3

Popeye was one of the first movies I ever saw in a theater. I was around six.

4

Popeye
Club Paradise
Good Morning, Vietnam
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Dead Poets Society
Hook
Aladdin
Mrs. Doubtfire
Jumanji
Flubber
Good Will Hunting
Patch Adams
Bicentennial Man
Night at the Museum

5

The Survivors
Moscow on the Hudson
Good Morning, Vietnam
The Fisher King
Jumanji
What Dreams May Come
Night at the Museum

6

Jumanjii, Hook, and Bicentennial Man. I still haven’t forgiven him for Bicentennial Man.

7

Not that many really. Popeye, Good Morning, Moscow on the Hudson and Jumanji. He had two distinctions for me – Moscow on the Hudson is one of very few films I paid to see several times and Popeye one of the very few I lost interest in and left. I was more into his comedy routines and commentary than his films. I can still see his “three-headed baby fish” pollution routine in my brain and I maybe saw it twice on Carson reruns way back when.

8

Most of the above plus The World According to Garp.

I’m sure if I looked up IMDB I’d realize there are many more.

9

Hook and Popeye, but my favorite was Toys.

10

Jumanji in 1995 at age eight, rest were on video.

11

Patch Adams
Jumanji
Aladdin
Good Will Hunting
The Birdcage
Mrs. Doubtfire
What Dreams May Come
Toys
Hook
AI

12

The Night Listener
The Big White
Insomnia
One Hour Photo
Deconstructing Harry
Hamlet
To Wong Foo
Aladdin
The Fisher King
Dead Again
Awakenings
Dead Poets Society
Baron Munchausen
World According to Garp
Popeye

13

Insomnia
AI
Bicentennial Man
Good Will Hunting
Hamlet
Jack
To Wong Foo
Nine Months
Mrs. Doubtfire
Toys
Hook
The Fisher King
Dead Poets Society

Not even my favorite roles of his, but some good and some bad in there.

14

Popeye
Baron Munchausen
Fisher King
Hook
Aladdin
Toys
Mrs Doubtfire
Jumanji
What Dreams May Come
AI
Robots
Happy Feet

15

The World According to Garp
Mrs. Doubtfire
Jumanji
Aladdin
Hamlet
Good Morning Vietnam
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Fisher King
Hook
Toys
Night at the Museum
The Survivors
Moscow on the Hudson
What Dreams May Come
Dead Again
August Rush
Nine Months
Club Paradise
Popeye

16

Good Will Hunting only

17

Not many. I did see Good Morning Viet Nam. That movie has a prime example of why the theater experience is so much more powerful than watching a movie at home. The scene where he gets on air and starts telling the real news and not the fluff they were made to say. When they cut off the signal it is only reaction shots and complete dead silence…silence…silence… It seems to go on forever. Watching it at home there is little impact in that scene. Sitting through that sudden silence in the movie theater made me feel the weight of it pushing down on me. Brilliant acting and directing.

18

Hook
Mrs. Doubtfire
The Birdcage
Good Will Hunting
Popeye (I think, I was very small)
A.I.
One-Hour Photo
Insomnia
Dead Poets Society
Baron Munchausen (I think – may have been video)

19

The only one I can really recall is Popeye because I took my young daughter, which didn’t work out too well. She was too young to appreciate it.

I’ve seen lots of his films, but I can’t think of another one that was actually at the cinema. But I don’t go to the movies too often.

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Cadillac Man (I’m the only one it seems)
Dead Again
Good Morning Vietnam
Good Will Hunting