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...Damon couldn't just walk around for two hours flashing smiles and acting cool. So he writes himself into a showcase drama where he not only gets to horse around with gorgeous Minnie Driver, but also challenges the acting chops of some man named Robin Williams...
...Robin Williams can dominate scenes and hold close-ups like no other actor in history: through intelligent comedic insanity. He commands complete attention during his manic riffs--whether he's mocking Jack Nicholson, performing his Mother Teresa impression, or simply improvising as only Robin Williams...
...ROBIN WILLIAMS stars in Flubber, a remake of 1961's The Absent Minded Professor...
...instead planned to hand it off to Castle Rock partner Andrew Scheinman, whose only previous directing credit was the forgettable 1994 movie Little Big League. The young actors returned their material to the marketplace, where Miramax bought it from Castle Rock. Commitments from director Van Sant and co-star Robin Williams made the project happen the way they always dreamed it would. This also led to an ongoing romance between Damon and his co-star Minnie Driver...
...Boston cronies for stupid boozing and brawling. Class issues, rarely raised in American movies, seem about to be interestingly engaged. But no, Will's inability to find love and embrace his upscale destiny is the product of childhood abuse, the memory of which he must recover. This brings on Robin Williams as--what else?--the humanist shrink, himself a troubled soul, but, like Will, redeemable (they are both baseball lovers). Hearts sinking, we are obliged to endure much pseudo-serious gabble as we head toward another painfully predictable triumph of the human spirit. There must be some better...