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Seize the Day [DVD]

Robin Williams (Actor), Richard B. Shull (Actor), Fielder Cook (Director) | Rated: Parental Guidance | Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Robin Williams, Richard B. Shull, David Bickford, Glenne Headly, Stephen Strimpell
  • Directors: Fielder Cook
  • Writers: Ronald Ribman, Saul Bellow
  • Producers: Brian Benlifer, Chiz Schultz, Robert Geller
  • Format: PAL
  • Region: All Regions
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: C'est La Vie
  • DVD Release Date: 1 Oct 1999
  • Run Time: 90 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B000062Y5O
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 313,634 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) is an out-of-work, forty-something failed actor who is trying to come to terms with his life. He looks to his father (Joseph Wiseman) and his buddy (Jerry Stiller) for advice and help, desperately hoping that they'll be able to point him in the right direction. Williams shines in this often depressing film about a life of broken dreams. Watch out for familiar faces in cameo roles.

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Jewish loser in a world of financial vultures, some cannibals 20 Mar 2007
By Jacques COULARDEAU
Format:DVD
An interesting film adapted from Saul Bellow, the famous Nobel Prize winner. Here the character, a middle-age Jewish man, is accumulating all kinds of difficulties: he is fired, he is separated from his wife who hassles him for money, he is rejected financially and emotionally by his own father, he is fooled by a fake finance wizard who practically robs him of his money, and I should say etc and so on. The character is perfectly hysterical in an absolutely paranoid direction and we can see him going down little by little and it all ends up on a total dead end blind alley impasse. In other words a perfect loser in the Jewish culture who ends up crying on his own fate in the funeral of some other guy he does not know at all among people who don't know him nor he them. That is pure Saul Bellow who dedicated his whole writing career to such losers and total misfits in the world of making money not only to survive, not even to live, but to exist. In other words he is self immolating himself at the social stake of financial failure. Brilliant.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine & University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne
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5.0 out of 5 stars Williams the actor 11 Jan 2007
By sklaw5 - Published on Amazon.com
Format:DVD
I know it sounds sacreligious, but I've never thought Robin Williams was funny and the harder he tries to be funny the more unfunny I find him. I was really impressed therefore, the first time I saw him in a dramatic performance a few years ago and it was Seize the Day. I had no idea that he had such talent. He communicates everything that there is to be felt in the story by the strength of his performance.
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5.0 out of 5 stars PITIFUL 19 Nov 2000
By Bonita L. Davis - Published on Amazon.com
Willy is pitiful! A middle-age man and he still can't get his act together. Earlier in his life he rebels against his parents wishes and attempts to make his own way but can never seem to get it together. His life is what....?

Robin Williams gives us an excellent portrait of a man who rebels for the right reasons but is missing that mysterious "something" which can give his life meaning. Attempting to fill the void in his life is the challenge he faces throughout the film. You feel sorry and at the same time find yourself disgusted with the character who never seems to grows up.

Saul Bellow's work has been easily adapted to the screen with fine actors who will keep you going. His commentary about life, the myth of hard work and fulfilling dreams make you question your own life. Is it worth being in the rat race? Watch this movie and you will see.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Exquisite and painful. 21 Aug 2000
By Gilad L. Rosner - Published on Amazon.com
This film is one of Robin Williams' best performances. Perfect as Saul Bellow's protagonist, Williams plays Wilky Adler, a man approaching an inevitable mid-life crisis. Wilky is pathetic and pitiable, an everyman who could never get his life in order. Devoid of redemption, this film is familiar and painful, with stellar acting from Williams, Joseph Wiseman (Dr. Adler), and Jerry Stiller (Dr. Tamkin).
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