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| Directed by | Marina Zenovich |
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| Music by | Adam Dorn |
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| Distributed by | Jigsaw Productions |
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Running time | 117 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Marina Zenovich, celebrating the life and career of comedian Robin Williams, who died in 2014. [1] [2] An HBO production, it features interviews with Whoopi Goldberg, David Letterman, Billy Crystal, among others. It also includes outtakes and little known clips from Williams' stand-up routines. [3] [4] [5]
The film played six sell-out screenings at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018. [5] It was also screened at the Nantucket Film Festival [6] and had a first HBO broadcast on July 16, 2018. [7] [8] That same summer, the documentary was shown at the Hamptons International Film Festival SummerDocs. A discussion with Zenovich and Q&A host Alec Baldwin followed the Hamptons screening. [4] [9] [2]
On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 94%, based on 51 reviews, with an average rating of 7.4/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind offers a poignant -- albeit tantalizingly incomplete -- peek behind the curtain of a brilliant performer's tragically curtailed life and career." [10] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 78 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [11]
Variety described the film as being "sharp-edged, humane, and deeply researched enough to take you closer to the manic engine of Williams' brilliance and pain". [5]