Fast-talking Robin Williams plays a straight role as a salesman who has lost his job and is going through a mid-life crisis. He goes home to New York in the hopes that he can call in a few favours and get back on his feet. But he constantly runs into brick walls. Williams' vigorous performance is the main reason this film stays afloat, although one can't imagine anyone with his amount of energy having trouble succeeding at something. But apart from its central character, the film is rather flat, there are no plot highs and lows to maintain interest and things eventually become repetitive. If the title of this film sounds strangely familiar, you've obviously seen Dead Poets Society, in which schoolteacher Williams tells his pupils: 'Seize the day, gentlemen. Make your lives extraordinary! ' He tried to seize the day here, too, but wasn't given enough script or direction backup to make this an extraordinary film. Originally made for TV but shown in cinemas instead.


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