Being Human [VHS] by Bill Forsyth, starring Robin Williams, Maudie Johnson, Max Johnson (II), Robert Carlyle, Eoin McCarthy: DVDNear.com

Being Human [VHS]

Being Human [VHS]
by Bill Forsyth

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Actor: Eoin McCarthy, Maudie Johnson, Max Johnson (II), Robert Carlyle, Robin Williams
Director: Bill Forsyth
Audio: English (Unknown), Analog; English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled
Running Time: 122 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1995-02-06
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video

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Anyone having high hopes for the artistic collaboration between Robin Williams and director Bill Forsyth (who made Local Hero, perhaps the most enjoyable film of the 1980s) probably left this movie disappointed. Forsyth is attempting nothing less than The Ages of Man, using Williams as his representative of humanity through history. Cast as a kind of Everyman, Williams plays a guy who can't seem to get his family situation straightened out to his satisfaction, whether he's trying to protect his family from Vikings in prehistoric times, being a nomad in the Middle Ages, or showing up as an unhappy divorced guy in contemporary times who's trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter. It's worth a look, if only for the opportunity to see how a big idea can go decidedly wrong and to observe what happens when a director gets a hold of an unworkable concept that he believes in completely. Williams wears a pained expression through most of the film. --Marshall Fine

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