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Travolting

Jeff Sweeney & Stuart Elmore

A weekly investigation into the strange filmographies of cinemas most fascinating careers.

tv & film film history

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100:41

The Birdcage

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2025/08/06

"Chewing gum helps me think!" "Sweetie, you're wasting your gum." Robin Williams and Nathan Lane play a gay couple who own and run a nightclub in Palm Beach Florida when their son's fiance's conservative parents (Gene Hackman & Dianne Wiest) decide to drive down to visit. An instant classic with great laughs and a joyful message of love.

120:50

Jumanji

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2025/07/30

It's Stuart's greatest fear, getting Jumanji'd into one of his board games. But wait a second... is getting Jumanji'd when you go into the game or when the game comes out of the game to you? This 1995 adventure film stars Robin Williams as Alan Parrish who has been sucked into a board game trying to survive the jungle for the past 26 years only to find out he must finish the game he started. This movie lived on a bunch of millennials VHS shelves!

134:14

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

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2025/07/23

A mouthful of a title but an important milestone of a film in queer cinema. Watch Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and John Leguizamo in drag drive across the country to compete in the Drag Queen of America contest and run into all sorts of interesting situations and personalities of which themselves and the people they meet come away with the appreciation for expressing your truest self.

68:31

Nine Months

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2025/07/18

This week's episode features a classic 90's rom com where Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore are suddenly expecting! Hugh Grant, the usual non-committal lover boy, has to come to terms with whether he's truly ready to be a father. Robin's role in this? Well obviously its the Russian gynecologist.

45:50

In Search of Dr Seuss

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2025/07/09

A journalist explores the early life and career of famed children's author Dr Seuss through retelling of his most popular stories told through the lens of significant cultural and sociopolitical events. Robin pops in for a short but heartfelt sequence where he reads the Cat in the Hat to his daughter, Zelda.

84:11

Being Human

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2025/07/02

Imagine Cloud Atlas but if it was boring.

135:23

Mrs. Doubtfire

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2025/06/26

If you were born in the 90's, this and/or Aladdin was your childhood introduction to Robin Williams. This heartwarming Chris Columbus movie has a dark spin among certain audiences, like Jeff.

122:36

Toys

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2025/06/18

Robin Williams reunites with Good Morning Vietnam Director Barry Levinson in this blank check, first draft film that combines the ideas of Willy Wonka, Small Soldiers, and Apocalypse Now.

141:40

Aladdin

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2025/06/11

MAKE WAAAAAYYY FOR PRINCE ROBIN!!! Robin at the height of his acting career hits another homerun as the titular Genie in Disney's 1992 animated classic, Aladdin. When the writers and producers were attempting to do some research on middle eastern culture, they decided going to the Saudi Arabian expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center was all that they needed. That all said, Robin's role as the genie is what will cement his voice and "stream-of-consciousness" mind into children and adults all

104:00

FernGully: The Last Rainforest

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2025/06/04

Jeff, Stuart and special guest Alex Wilson talk about Robin Williams' first feature length animated role as Batty Koba in FernGully: The Last Rainforest. Batty is a bat, as the name would imply, that suffered under human experiments which led to him having erratic mood changes where his personality switches like changing the channel on a TV.

29:33

A Wish for Wings that Work

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2025/05/28

Before FernGully, before Aladdin, Robin does a single scene voice cameo for a children's animated short film based on the penguin who wished he could fly. "Technically" this is Robin's first ever animated role in his career.

146:25

Hook

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2025/05/22

Williams first of his two collaborations with the legendary Steven Spielberg. Join Jeff, Stuart and Rebecca Johnson as the three all go toe to toe in debating the ultimate question: Is Hook a good movie?

138:51

The Fisher King

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2025/05/14

Robin's second collaboration with Terry Gilliam involves a grungy New York city where a disgraced DJ played by Jeff Bridges befriends Robin Williams who plays a homeless man who believes he is a knight on a mission from god to find the holy grail.

136:31

Dead Again

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2025/05/07

Kenneth Branaghs second film he directed involves a weird neo-noir almost pulp-like thriller where Branagh and Emma Thompson must figure out a murder from their past lives. Robin, who is only in three fairly short scenes, is playing a psychiatrist named Doctor Carlisle Cozy.

76:04

Shakes the Clown

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2025/04/30

Known as "The Citizen Kane of Alcoholic Clown Movies", this film is full of fun surprises like baby Adam Sandler, murderer Tom Kenny and many more that you'll have fun discovering as the boys talk about Bobcat Goldthwait's Shakes the Clown!

98:15

Awakenings

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2025/04/23

Robin joins forces with Robert De Niro in this 1991 medical drama about a doctor who searches to find signs of life within patients frozen from a neurological disease. Through the discovery of a new chance at life, Robin and Robert both find new meaning and purpose in what it means to be alive. This is a major Stuart tearjerker movie.

40:07

Cadillac Man

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2025/04/16

This movie tries to be Dog Day Afternoon but with a used car salesman. Though Robin still makes a few jokes in this movie, there's not enough craziness to justify itself.

78:02

The Earth Day Special

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2025/04/09

The 90's, what a wild time it was. Before the infamous celebrity "imagine" montage in the Covid-19 era, there was a TV special featuring every single famous actor in that era speaking on the cause of Climate Change. Robin representing the "Every Man" figuring out ways to help the planet and humanity's future. This is the Earth Day Special.

168:43

Dead Poets Society

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2025/04/04

Oh Captain my Captain! Robin Williams enters the poetry classroom as Mr. Keating, a teacher for an all-boys prep school that teaches his class how to seize the day and make their lives extraordinary. Dead Poets Society is a film that stands the test of time and has influenced many young adults in how to navigate through their traditional lives whether it be through an educational environment or their home environment.

30:01

High Rollers

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2025/03/26

Travolta is back with his sequel to Cash Out... HIGH ROLLERS!!! This movie is bad. Why are we still doing this?

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