DVD Review: "WORLDS GREATEST DAD" Score B-

From the twisted mind, and direction of Bobcat Goldwaith, this little indy film is something that is on Robin Williams best works list. The redheaded kid from Spykids turns in a really vicious performance as the bastard of a son to Williams unpublished writer/poetry teacher father. He loves his son even though he is a miserable human being who hates most everything except really sick porn. SPOILER: Not knowing what was the premise of this film when the kid DIES from self masturbation asphyxiation I was wondering where this was going to go. I thought it was about this father dealing with this kid, instead it was about this father hiding the real death, faking a deep suicide note, and turning this kid into a savior for other teens, then using his writing skills to forge a journal that he publishes. In the end I found it unsatisfying that he comes clean to everyone and tells the truth of it all, although this is probably showing more of how much of a good father he was trying to be. The end of the pool jump had me perplexed but now I think it was showing the father finally able to wash himself clean of the whole thing about his son, the burden of the lies he told about him and his life now. Check it out, its an odd film but in the end a proficient one.