"World's Greatest Dad"
IMDB categorizes this as a Comedy/Drama. Well, its only a drama. The movie just goes to show how selfish people are on the outside. The dad uses his son's death as an opportunity to achieve is dream, that is, to get his literary work published. The kid dies trying to spice up things in his bedroom. To save all the embarrassment, the dad makes it look like a suicide. Although the book is published in school, but not in his name, he still is satisfied as it is his work, which he claims to be his son's personal diary. It becomes so popular among the kids of that school that the headmaster decides to name the school library after the kid's name. Soon, publishers approach him. The guilt of his wrongdoing constantly haunts the dad, its a matter of time that he give in and get it off their shoulders.
Even though these statements are revealing enough and most of the stars aren't very well known, the movie is still worth a watch.
I liked the movie....and you could call it a Dark comedy of sorts ( something like ' Burn after reading' ).Robbie Williams as usual is impeccable. And dude...the actors aren't noobs, Robbie is a household name and the son Alexa Vega was that pesky kid from the 'Spy Kids' films :) .
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