Product: The Fisher King [VHS] (1991)
Rating: 3.0
Williams showcase
Jeff Bridges is a self-centered, big-shot talk radio host, full of venom for the world at large; Robin Williams is a street person who's lost his girl to a gun-wielding nutjob spurred on by Bridges and something he says on his radio show. By accident they meet and become friends. There is something about the Holy Grail, about making commitments, about being accepted, but it's all pretty superficial. The movie floats over a lot of ground and is overly long, but it's a showcase for Williams's looniness. The "messages" are very shallow and hard to take seriously, and worst of all is the sappy ending which is infantile and unbelievable. The high point for me: Williams singing "Lydia the Tattooed Lady," which is a riot - though he changes the lyrics at one point from Stonewall Jackson to Michael Jackson, probably assuming this audience never would have heard of Stonewall Jackson. It's that kind of movie.