Robin Williams: 5 Awesome Performances & 5 That Sucked

3. Dale Putley - Father's Day (1997)

Not to be confused with World's Greatest Dad, which is actually one of his finest late-career performances (if a little spooky given some of the subject matter), Father's Day is a lazily written comedy that seemed to think that putting Billy Crystal and Robin Williams together in a film was the only magic formula it needed to succeed. Unsurprisingly the lack of actual comic material reflects badly on both of the entirely wasted stars. There are moments of brilliance, when Crystal and Williams are clearly ad-libbing and ignoring what their terrible writers offered initially, but they're very much islands in a sea of boringness as the Mama Mia-like concept of two childless men presented with the prospect of having a child stumbles forward and falls into the seemingly endless cavern of forgettable 1990s comedies. A morality tale, if ever one were needed, about the dangers of putting talent in the hands of supremely untalented writers.