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  • 2020
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 17 m
  • 2020
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 17 m

Summary Robin’s Wish tells the powerful true story of actor/comedian Robin Williams’ final days. For the first time, Robin’s fight against a deadly neurodegenerative disorder, known as Lewy Body Dementia, is shown in stunning detail. Through a journalistic lens, this story sheds an entirely new light on the tragedy, beauty and power behind the m...

Directed By: Tylor Norwood

Written By: Scott Fitzloff, Tylor Norwood

  • 2020
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 17 m
  • 2020
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 17 m

Robin's Wish

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
73
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
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Summary Robin’s Wish tells the powerful true story of actor/comedian Robin Williams’ final days. For the first time, Robin’s fight against a deadly neurodegenerative disorder, known as Lewy Body Dementia, is shown in stunning detail. Through a journalistic lens, this story sheds an entirely new light on the tragedy, beauty and power behind the m...

Directed By: Tylor Norwood

Written By: Scott Fitzloff, Tylor Norwood

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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69% Positive
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31% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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100
Sep 8, 2020
Like any great Robin Williams film, Robin’s Wish has moments of joy, nostalgia, heartbreak, and, most of all, hope.
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90
Sep 2, 2020
A documentary that’s honest and scary, wrenching and moving.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 2, 2020
Robin’s Wish, of course, can’t lessen the tragedy of Williams’ death, but it helps us better reconcile the suicide of such a joyous, irrepressible soul.
By David Lewis FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 25, 2020
Zeroing in on Robin’s disease, his decline and what she and a few others close to him observed, with plenty of medical explanations, make this brief film feel complete, in its own way. What they’ve made is a solid, medically sound and emotional final chapter in a life that touched many, one that deserves to be remembered for how he really lived and what truly caused his death.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
63
Sep 1, 2020
Although Robin's Wish is ultimately unwilling or unable to really grapple with the emotions of the people left behind after suicide, it is a compassionate film that will bring information about Williams' condition to a wide audience.
By Matt Zoller Seitz FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 28, 2021
Robin’s Wish is not a wide-ranging documentary about Williams’s life. It only briefly sketches in his career, from early ambitions of serious acting at the Juilliard drama school in New York to standup stardom (“he drained every scintilla of laughter out of the crowd”) and Hollywood.
By Cath Clarke FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 3, 2020
The heartbreaking aspect of Robin's Wish lies in the fact that Williams died without knowing what was happening to him, while there's uplift in Schneider Williams' determination to set the record straight. How well that works translating that specific mission into a stand-alone documentary is, to some extent, another matter.
By Brian Lowry FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
7.1
63% Positive
5 Ratings
25% Mixed
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13% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
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25% Mixed
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13% Negative
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Production Company Quotable Pictures
Release Date Sep 1, 2020
Duration 1 h 17 m
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Tagline The untold story.
Website http://www.robinswish.com/
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