Robin's Wish

Robin's Wish (2020) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Director Tylor Norwood pieces together what was really happening to Robin Williams during the last year of his life.

When the actor died in the summer of 2014, the world was blindsided, and the press rushed out theories, each cruder than the last. This film sets them aside and turns to the people who were actually there — his widow, Susan Schneider Williams, his neighbors, his colleagues on set. From their accounts and his doctors' findings emerges the portrait of a man whose brain was being eroded by Lewy body disease, a condition only confirmed after he was gone.

Seventy-seven minutes with no sensationalism and no easy tears: a calm, careful look at how one of the brightest comics of his generation faded, often without grasping what was wrong. A hard but worthwhile watch for anyone who loved Williams. Stream Robin's Wish (2020) online on iFILM.