'WORLD'S GREATEST DAD' Starring Robin Williams and Directed by Bobcat Goldthwait...

'WORLD'S GREATEST DAD' Starring Robin Williams and Directed by Bobcat
Goldthwait to Premiere as a Sneak Preview on HDNet Movies
Film to Premiere Wednesday, August 19 at 8:00 p.m. ET - Two Days Prior to its
National Theatrical Release

DALLAS, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- HDNet Movies presents a special Sneak Preview
of the dark comedy WORLD'S GREATEST DAD, starring Robin Williams and written
and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait, Wednesday, August 19 at 8:00 p.m. ET.

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Aaron Hillis of The Village Voice says that the film is "Scandalously
entertaining!" While Indiewire says that WORLD'S GREATEST DAD is "A rich,
black comedy. . .Robin Williams' best role in years." Owen Gleiberman of
Entertainment Weekly calls WORLD'S GREATEST DAD, "A crazy, foul-mouthed black
comedy that blows up every rule of taste and common sense and somehow gets
away with it."

A thoughtful but outrageous comedy from Bobcat Goldthwait, 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.

Robin Williams stars as Lance Clayton, a man who has learned to settle. He
dreamed of being a rich and famous writer, but has only managed to make it as
a high school poetry teacher. His only son Kyle (Daryl Sabara) is an
insufferable jackass who won't give his father the time of day. He is dating
Claire (Alexie Gilmore), the school's adorable art teacher, but she doesn't
want to get serious -- or even acknowledge publicly that they are dating.

Then, in the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy and
greatest opportunity of his life. He is suddenly faced with the possibility of
all the fame, fortune and popularity he ever dreamed of, if he can only live
with the knowledge of how he got there.

WORLD'S GREATEST DAD is the latest installment in the HDNet Movies "Sneak
Preview" series. Only HDNet Movies presents exclusive "Sneak Previews" of
films to viewers before they premiere in theaters. All Sneak Preview films
are free to HDNet Movies subscribers.

HDNet Movies will offer WORLD'S GREATEST DAD as a special Sneak Preview on
Wednesday, August 19 at 8:00 p.m. ET, with encore presentations at 9:45 and
11:30 p.m. ET that same evening.

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Upcoming Sneak Previews include "World's Greatest Dad " written and directed
by Bobcat Goldthwait and starring Robin Williams.

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