Sundance Movie Review: World’s Greatest Dad


Sundance Movie Review: World’s Greatest Dad

Posted by Petes1234567 346 days ago
Bob Goldthwait’s 2006 film Sleeping Dogs Lie (originally titled “Stay”) was about a relationship that is destroyed when a guy’s girlfriend reveals a past indiscretion (read: blowjob) with a dog. Believe it or not, Goldthwait’s 2009 follow-up is at least 10 times more twisted and probably 20 times funnier. The film seems to be unofficially inspired by Chuck Palahniuk’s infamous short story Guts and the A Million Little Pieces fiasco.


Robin Williams plays Lance Clayton, an aspiring writer / working high school English teacher who discovers his unlikable loser loner son (Daryl Sabara) dead of autoerotic exfixiation. To explain what happens next, let me include an excerpt from Palahniuk’s Guts:
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