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Seize the Day

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When failing salesman Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) loses his job, his life starts to fall apart. His wife, Margaret (Glenne Headly), divorces him, and his disappointed father (David Bickford) belittles him. Tommy decides to move to New York City for a job set up by his friend Dr. Tamkin (Richard B. Shull), still believing he has the skills to be a top salesman. When prospects in New York do not improve for Tommy, he fights for the little work he can find.
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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Jul 22, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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Stephen C Success in 1 hour and 33 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/14/25 Full Review Colin M Robin Williams in a Saul Bellow story. A middle-aged American man struggles with employment, family and financial issues. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/29/23 Full Review Audience Member How this movie has only a 48% when it is one of the best most concise and perfectly executed stories of all time is beyond me. If you know anything about story and character you will understand this truth. This is an actors actor movie. Julliard Technique in full display. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Robin Williams stretches his acting chops in this fine adaptation of the Saul Bellow novel, directed by Fiedler Cook. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member It was sad seeing one of everybody's favorite funny man actors play a depressed, down-on-his-luck, too good a guy to lash out against those he needed to, poorly parented young man struggle with life, especially considering how much it mirrored his secretly depressed real life (Robin Williams). As a movie, it wasn't particularly noteworthy. You just watch a man get duped by everyone and lose it at the end. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member I mean it's Williams but the movie itself is bad Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Fielder Cook

Director

Robin Williams

Tommy Wilhelm

Richard B. Shull

Rojax

David Bickford

Son-in-Law

Glenne Headly

Olive

Stephen Strimpell

Stockbroker
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Synopsis When failing salesman Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) loses his job, his life starts to fall apart. His wife, Margaret (Glenne Headly), divorces him, and his disappointed father (David Bickford) belittles him. Tommy decides to move to New York City for a job set up by his friend Dr. Tamkin (Richard B. Shull), still believing he has the skills to be a top salesman. When prospects in New York do not improve for Tommy, he fights for the little work he can find.
Director
Fielder Cook
Producer
Chiz Schultz
Screenwriter
Saul Bellow, Ronald Ribman
Production Co
Learning in Focus
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 12, 2015
Runtime
1h 33m
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