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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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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?

27:36

Robin Williams: The Comedian (Recap Episode)

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2025/03/19

The boys close out this first era of Robin Williams career by summarizing his rise as a comedian who tried his best to get into the acting business. What started as Popeye and then misstep after misstep, he eventually got the guidance and wisdom of director Barry Levinson in Good Morning Vietnam that showed the world that Robin Williams wasn't just a comedian anymore, he was a movie star.

34:20

Portrait of a White Marriage

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2025/03/12

Robin has a 5 minute cameo in this movie, forcing us to cover it. Nothing really happens. The movie is quite boring and dull. Martin Mull seemingly plays himself but paints himself as a bad daytime TV talk show host? Wild.

135:51

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

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2025/03/05

From the mind of Terry Gilliam, comes a historical fantasy adventure where an old heroic man must take flight from a city under siege to find his old heroic friends to perform one last adventure. The film explores ideas of imagination, aging, death, and whimsical storytelling. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen goes down as a hidden gem of a movie that otherwise could have easily gone unnoticed in the Travolting saga.

144:56

Good Morning, Vietnam

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2025/02/26

After a number of flops and panned projects, Robin finally arrives as the perfect storm to audiences all over the world with his performance in the 1987 comedy war film, Good Morning, Vietnam. With a combination of untapped comedic improvisation to genuinely heartfelt dramatic moments, Robin soars in this movie that understands the perfect way to synthesize the talent of Robin Williams.

28:36

Seize the Day

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2025/02/19

Not to be confused with the popular song from the hit broadway musical, Newsies; as well as not to be confused with the popular saying in Robin's later film, Dead Poets Society. Seize the Day is a low-budget PBS TV Movie in which Robin plays a down-on-his-luck man whose marriage is falling apart, broke, and can't seem to get a single win in life.

58:09

Club Paradise

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2025/02/12

Club Paradise begins in Chicago Illinois where a retired firefighter played by Robin Williams takes his insurance money and opens a resort at a tropical island. Directed by Harold Ramis, this movie could've been another lampoon-esque classic but instead gets too busy with various themes and subplots muddy up the films cohesiveness. Rick Moranis and Eugene Levy are both funny in this.

63:07

The Best of Times

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2025/02/05

This two hander starring Kurt Russell and Robin Williams follows the lives of two washed up dudes in their 30s who reminisce on their final high school football game where Robin's character "dropped the ball". Too bad everybody else involved in making this movie also dropped the ball.

64:41

Moscow on the Hudson

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2025/01/29

In the height of the Reagan Era, Robin plays a russian who defects and lives a new life in America. The film is a fascinating introspective look on the immigrant story learning about the wonderful and strange things in this new country with his likewise immigrant friends who guides him on this new journey.

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