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Being Human [1994]

VHS ~ Robin Williams
5.0 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Robin Williams, Maudie Johnson, Max Johnson (II), Robert Carlyle, Eoin McCarthy
  • Directors: Bill Forsyth
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Dolby, PAL, Surround Sound
  • Language English
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • VHS Release Date: 26 Aug 1996
  • Run Time: 117 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CQPN
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 12,420 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Anyone having high hopes for the artistic collaboration betweenRobin Williams and director Bill Forsyth (who made Local Hero, perhaps the most enjoyable film of the 1980s) probably left this movie disappointed. Forsyth is attempting nothing less than The Ages of Man, using Williams as his representative of humanity through history. Cast as a kind of Everyman, Williams plays a guy who can't seem to get his family situation straightened out to his satisfaction, whether he's trying to protect his family from Vikings in prehistoric times, being a nomad in the Middle Ages or showing up as an unhappy divorced guy in contemporary times who's trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter. It's worth a look, if only for the opportunity to see how a big idea can go decidedly wrong and to observe what happens when a director gets a hold of an unworkable concept that he believes in completely. Williams wears a pained expression through most of the film. --Marshall Fine

Synopsis
A series of tales spanning six thousand years which follow the lives of five different men, but the problems throughout the ages of survival and happiness are pretty much the same...

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Robin Williams the actor...when he wants to be, 22 Dec 2002
By Sufyan "The Suf" (Doha, Qatar) - See all my reviews
This isn't one of those movies where Robin Williams goes all hyperactive, weird...and sometime annoying. This is a thinking movie. A film that makes you think...duh.

The film shows the lives of five different characters with the same name, Hector, played by non other than Robin himself. All five characters live in different periods in time. All five tales of Hector have the underlying theme of "family".

A truly touching film although at times one loses the plot... or plots as it were. Remarkable performance by Robin. Highly recommended.

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