The Definitive Robin Williams Movie

Rating: 9/10 (18 October 2014)

Good Morning Vietnam is quite simply the greatest movie Robin Williams ever made (I know Mrs Doubtfire has a lot of fans, but I think this is the essential Williams movie)
Plot In A Paragraph: In 1965 An unorthodox DJ (A brilliant Robin Williams) begins to shake things up when he is assigned to the Armed Services Radio Station in Vietnam.
I can't praise the cast highly enough here, Forest Witaker, Bruno Kirby, JT Walsh, Robert Wuhl, Noble Willingham are all superb, as is Tung Thanh Tran and Chintara Sukapatana as some local people Williams befriends.
The soundtrack is a great asset to the movie, featuring The Beach Boys and James Brown to name a few and Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World" is an absolute show stopper!
But it's Williams who is the star of the movie and he handled the emotional scenes just as well as the comedy scenes. Williams was rightly nominated for an Oscar for this movie, sadly he lost out to Michael Douglas as Gordon Geko in Wall Street.
Superb direction. Superb performances. A must see.