This year I saw 4 Sundance movies, a record for me since moving to Utah. Our first movie was, World’s Greatest Dad, directed by Bobcat Goldthwait, who you might recognize from Police Academy, and starring Robin Williams, my favorite actor of all time. It was a dark, very dark, and haphazardly funny movie. I’ll spare the details but Robin William does a great job finding a dark, self serving side inside himself to present in this film. He begins as a humble, hardworking father who has lost motivation in disciplining his son then with the surprise death of his son his grief turns into self serving pride as he quickly takes advantage of the situation. At the end of the movie he returns to his original morality and confesses his dark secret, forfeiting many who were close to him yet gaining a new family like he’d never had before and unleashing a new freedom within. An theme throughout the movie was that people have lost the ability to not make everything about them. The best part I must say was seeing Robin Williams in person! Though I saw a different, deep and dark side of him, he was still the joyful and unpretentious person that I’d imagined him to be. He was quickly to compliment the director and the other young upcoming actors in the film instead of basking in his inferior role. Before the film that day we got to go into the ASCAP Music Cafe. We briefly saw John Reznick’s performance then saw most of Rachael Yamagata, who was especially talented. I especially liked her songs on the piano. After the film we headed to Davanzas for a slice of pizza, only $2.50, which is a great deal for Park City, then headed home. 
First Picture: Robin Williams with Bobcat Goldthwait and the cast of World’s Greatest Dad. Second Picture: Rachael Yamagata at ASCAP Music Cafe.
The second film we saw was, Prom Night in Mississippi, a documentary about the first integrated prom in a small town in Mississippi, the best part is the film took place in 2008. We conveniently saw the film on Martin Luther King Day! Earlier that day I had watched the MLK ‘I have a dream’ speech so the movie was even more impactful. The basic idea of the film was that Morgan Freeman offered to pay for this small town’s high school prom if they would agree to integrate it. Previously, they had two separate proms. The school principal agreed although many white families still decided to pay for a separate prom for their children, not including the black students. It was funny and almost unbelievable at times- people really still live like this in parts of our country! Lots of great Southern accents and small town attitudes. I highly recommend this film!
The last two movies were both unplanned. I got to see Good Hair, Chris Rock’s documentary, with the rest of the Marketing Department at work – which basically means me and two guys learned about black women’s hair for 2 hours. Oh and did I mention it was at 8:30am! The documentary was actually pretty good; Chris Rock always makes me laugh! And it was interesting to learn about this huge industry around hair products and hair importation from India. Much to our surprise Chris Rock showed up for Q & A after the showing and our second row seats made us an arm’s distance from him. The last movie I went to was with my dear friend Halen, she had an extra ticket to John Krasinski’s film called Interviews with Hideous Men. We hopes to see John, who plays Jim in The Office, but he didn’t show. The movie was pretty good, not funny at all like John’s role in The Office, but it was thought provoking and fun to see with a group of girls.
I saw Worlds Greatest Dad as well. Thought it was good. A little muddled perhaps, or maybe just harsh… either way I liked it overall.