Provincetown International Film Festival 2009

This wickedly funny dark comedy stars Robin Williams as a sad-sack poetry teacher who inadvertently finds his greatest opportunity from a freak accident. This latest offering from comedian-turned-director Bobcat Goldthwait defies expectations. A restrained Williams stars as Lance, a divorced, high school teacher and failed novelist who dreams of one day becoming a famous writer. To make matters worse, he must suffer the indignities of living with his thoroughly vile, porn-obsessed teenage son, Kyle. His coworker-with-benefits is drawn to another teacher whose first submitted piece was published in the New Yorker. After a horrifying and embarrassing family tragedy, Lance finds that his life takes a bizarre turn - for the better. By making the best of what life's given him, he sets a series of events in motion that could make all his dreams come true. WORLD'S GREATEST DAD aims to provoke by wringing laughs from personal calamity. But Goldthwait's jet-black comedy rises above mere shock value with sharp satirical insights about ambition, deception and the dangers of wish fulfillment. Print Source: Magnolia Pictures