Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind

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Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
Directed by Marina Zenovich
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography
  • Nick Higgins
  • Jenna Rosher
  • Thorsten Thielow
  • Wolfgang Held
Edited by
  • Greg Finton
  • Poppy Das
Music by Adam Dorn
Production
company
HBO
Distributed byJigsaw Productions
Release dates

  • July 16, 2018 (2018-07-16)(HBO)
Running time
117 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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]

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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]

Reception

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]

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