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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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30:01

High Rollers

Travolting ·

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.

42:31

The Survivors

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2025/01/22

Jeff and Stuart barely "survived" watching this movie. Marketed as a two-hander between Robin and Walter Matthau, this movie nails the jokes just as well as the plot: fast and unintelligible.

86:36

The World According to Garp

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2025/01/15

Considered to be Robin Williams' first dramatic role, this Forrest Gump-like movie showcases the life of T.S. Garp, a man born out of wed lock with no father figure around being raised by a woman who becomes a feminist icon. With a name like Garp, you would think the movie would allow Robin to be funny... it does not.

126:40

Popeye

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2025/01/08

Robin's spiritual first film where he channels his inner cartoon character to portray THE cartoon character. That's right... POPEYE! Robin, Shelley Duvall, and many other characters fully commit to the animated style of this Robert Altman musical.

44:38

Can I Do It... 'Til I Need Glasses?

Travolting ·

2025/01/01

Travolting's Season 4 subject, Bobbin for Robin, kicks off with Robin Williams first starring feature role; Pop-- Wait what? You mean to tell me Popeye wasn't Robin's first movie? You mean to tell me Robin Williams was in this low budget comedy sketch movie that was 99% college humor sex jokes called 'Can I Do It... 'Til I Need Glasses'?? Oh... okay...

68:14

A Very Travolting Christmas 4: The Epcot Candlelight...

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2024/12/25

The Candlelight Procession is a christmas musical event that Disney hosts in both of its parks with various celebrity narrators to guide us through the nativity story of Jesus. Well in 2023 in Disneyworld's EPCOT, our boy Brendan Fraser makes a return to the land of Orlando Florida where we will once again talk through a live viewing of the 2023 EPCOT Candlelight Procession.

57:02

Nostalgia Queen Era (Recap Episode)

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2024/12/18

The final recap episode for this season of Travolting as the boys round up their experience studying and investigating the career of Winona Ryder. What's Winona's deal? Where is she heading from here? Are we optimistic?Tune in for the full episode where we reveal our Season Four Subject!

142:43

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

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2024/12/11

Don't say it a third time! Jeff and Stuart finally reach Winona's modern era opus film, a sequel to a 1988 Tim Burton cult classic that includes the return of Keaton, O'Hara, and adding to the gang Jenna Ortega as Lydia Deetz's daughter. While Jeff, Stuart and special guest Trina Mulligan all have different opinions on the success/achievement of Beetlejuice 2, none of them deny the benchmark this film is for Winona's post-Stranger Things comeback to fame.

99:00

Haunted Mansion

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2024/12/04

Coming out a year before Beetlejuice 2, Winona is given a single scene cameo in this movie that doesn't seem to be scary enough or funny enough to justify its existence.

71:18

Gone in the Night

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2024/11/27

Originally called "The Cow" for... reasons... but this is Winona's first major top billed role in a real movie in over a decade. Jeff and Stuart remark the similarities between this movie and Zach Cregger's "Barbarian" except Gone in the Night takes a few unexpected twists and turns which leave the boys giggling at the sillyness of it all. That all being said, there is a tinge of hope for Winona after watching her performance in this movie which if anything, offers some great thriller vibes in the

31:21

Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine

Travolting ·

2024/11/20

Everything is not fine. This is a 50 minute Netflix TV special that was made in the height of Covid-19 and the 2020 election... so we're not okay after watching this.

63:46

Destination Wedding

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2024/11/13

He's back folks. Keanu Reeves in his fourth collaboration with Winona Ryder. This time, the pair are off to a wedding together, neither of whom wish to attend, and through their misery both internal and external, somehow form a relationship?

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