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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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40:07

Jakob the Liar

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2025/10/29

After the immediate flop of Patch Adams, Robin's next move in his post-Oscar win play is to portray a polish jew trying to survive in the ghetto during the Holocaust by telling fake stories to cheer up his neighbors and friends. What could possibly go wrong with that?

139:36

Patch Adams

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2025/10/22

After winning the Oscar for Good Will Hunting, Robin Williams, at the top of his fame, decides to do a movie that will utilize all the parts of him that made audiences love and adore him: making sad people feel happy. Sounds nice at first, until you watch this movie...

40:36

Robin Williams: The Thespian (Recap Episode)

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2025/10/15

Jeff and Stuart celebrate the decade of hit after hit during this superior time in Robin Williams' career from Dead Poets Society all the way to Good Will Hunting (with a couple of stinkers in between). After having won an Oscar, Robin has fully summited the mountain of Hollywood fame. But you know what they say after you summit a mountain, there's nowhere else to go... but down...

129:28

What Dreams May Come

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2025/10/08

Death, Heaven, Hell, The Afterlife, Reincarnation; these are all topics in the ethereal fantasy movie What Dreams May Come starring Robin Williams. Jeff, Stuart and reoccurring guest Mark Tilley dive deep into the weeds on the meaning of death, what comes after and how this movie approaches those questions.

119:46

Good Will Hunting

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2025/10/01

Robin William's magnum opus in regards to his acting career. This movie is full of amazing messages and themes that resonate throughout time. Jeff and Stuart are joined by favorite guest of the show Charlie Schumann where they talk about Robin's role, his amazing performance, and the build up that got him here in the first place. How do you like them apples?

107:21

Flubber

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2025/09/24

"Who hasn't made a Flubber in their lifetime?" - Jeff

123:10

Deconstructing Harry

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2025/09/17

Jeff and Stuart's second time covering a Woody Allen movie but this one being a full fledged written by, directed by and starring Woody Allen about a writer who cheats on his many wives. An obvious complete fictitious fabrication from Allen's mind which bares no resemblance to any of his real life alleged controversies and issues... allegedly...Please don't sue us.

53:55

Father's Day

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2025/09/10

Besides their unscripted cameo on the popular TV Show "Friends", the only other project famed best friends Robin Williams and Billy Crystal would star in together was the 1997 film, Father's Day. With the comedic chemistry that exists between these two improv giants, you would think these two would thrive and soar in this movie.... we have some terrible news...

110:45

Hamlet

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2025/09/03

To be (in this movie) or not to be (in this movie)... that is the question Robin Williams must ask himself as he joins back up with Kenneth Branagh for a short and quick role in his 1996 epic cinematic adaptation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

47:22

The Secret Agent

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2025/08/27

"ITS SMEEE!!!" Just kidding its actually Bob Hoskins in a very different role portraying a russian agent who uncovers a conspiracy in which involves his special needs brother-in-law played by 22-year-old Christian Bale. Robin makes an "explosive" appearance in this film as "The Professor".

108:07

Jack

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2025/08/20

From the director who brought you The Godfather Trilogy, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Megalopolis, comes a movie made for... well... nobody really... I mean we don't even know if Jack is made for kids only, adults only, or both. Either way, Jeff, Stuart and Brian had a blast talking about the rise and fall of one of Hollywood's most famous/infamous directors.

70:14

Aladdin and the King of Thieves

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2025/08/13

Wait a minute... isn't this the third Aladdin movie? Wasn't there one in the middle? Return of Jafar? Well you are correct but Robin Williams isn't in that one because of a dispute between himself and Disney. Aladdin and the King of Thieves, the second direct to video sequel of the classic first movie, reprises Robin Williams in his famous role of the Genie. There's a couple of okay musical numbers but all in all its exactly what you'd expect from Disney's direct to video slop pipeline.

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.

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