I watched this as a streaming movie on Amazon. Good movie for the patient, it is very likely Williams' last movie role, filmed just a bit over a year before he took his own life.
Robin Williams is Nashville banker Nolan Mack, 60, and long time married to the woman he loves. He is very organized and reliable, and in fact watches over his very sick dad who is in a medical facility. His boss at work tells him, after 25 years at that branch, the big boss is considering him for a branch manager job at a different location.
But he has been carrying a secret since he was 12, in his own nature he is homosexual. As we meet him he and his wife have different bedrooms in their nice upper-middle class home, they show kind affection and profess love for each other but mostly live two separate lives. They talk about going on a cruise but his heart doesn't seem to be in it.
Everything changes for Nolan when he makes a U-turn on the boulevard on his way from home and almost runs over a young man, a street hustler. Nolan is mysteriously and calmly attracted to him. They end up going to a seedy place, the hustler offers sex for money but Nolan isn't interested in that, he just wants to visit and talk. Eventually Nolan attempts to get the young man some work at a restaurant, and discussed his going to school, all in vain. Is Nolan trying to be the father that he had needed when he was a young man, struggling with his own homosexuality?
Williams is great in a difficult role within a difficult subject. His character here reminded me some of his character "Sy the photo guy" in "One Hour Photo". Robin Williams was a very funny guy but I think he did his best work in dramatic roles. He really was one of the best actors of my generation.
Robin Williams is Nashville banker Nolan Mack, 60, and long time married to the woman he loves. He is very organized and reliable, and in fact watches over his very sick dad who is in a medical facility. His boss at work tells him, after 25 years at that branch, the big boss is considering him for a branch manager job at a different location.
But he has been carrying a secret since he was 12, in his own nature he is homosexual. As we meet him he and his wife have different bedrooms in their nice upper-middle class home, they show kind affection and profess love for each other but mostly live two separate lives. They talk about going on a cruise but his heart doesn't seem to be in it.
Everything changes for Nolan when he makes a U-turn on the boulevard on his way from home and almost runs over a young man, a street hustler. Nolan is mysteriously and calmly attracted to him. They end up going to a seedy place, the hustler offers sex for money but Nolan isn't interested in that, he just wants to visit and talk. Eventually Nolan attempts to get the young man some work at a restaurant, and discussed his going to school, all in vain. Is Nolan trying to be the father that he had needed when he was a young man, struggling with his own homosexuality?
Williams is great in a difficult role within a difficult subject. His character here reminded me some of his character "Sy the photo guy" in "One Hour Photo". Robin Williams was a very funny guy but I think he did his best work in dramatic roles. He really was one of the best actors of my generation.