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Travolting
by Jeff Sweeney & Stuart Elmore
A weekly investigation into the strange filmographies of cinemas most fascinating careers.
Episodes
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The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
Robin Williams plays... well... a slightly grumpy man... in Brooklyn. After being given only 90 minutes left to live, Robin goes all over Brooklyn trying to make amends with all of the people he wronged in his life.
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Boulevard
Robin's last dramatic role is about a man who feels as though his entire life has been a lie and sets out on a course of rediscovery.
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The Butler
Robin Williams plays one of the five presidents in a story about a White House Butler making an impact on how each President handles and reacts to the civil rights movement. Williams, as President Dwight Eisenhower, is one of the first faces we see through the protagonist starting his journey at...
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The Face of Love
This small budget drama is about a widow who meets a man who looks exactly like her dead husband and starts a romantic relationship with him. What could possibly go wrong?? Joined by very special guest, Victor Macias, who was one of the camera operators on the production.
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The Big Wedding
An all-star cast featuring a reunion between Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, The Big Wedding offers a couple laughs for the casual viewer but nothing of any further substance such as a cohesive plot.
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Happy Feet Two
In 2006, George Miller directed an animated film about singing and dancing penguins. Five years later, the penguins are back, and they need our help.
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Old Dogs (again)
You read that title right. We covered this movie back in March 2022 when it was the Travolting season. Well now we're giving it a rewatch and a reassessment, this time focusing on Robin Williams!
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SpongeBob's Truth or Square
After a two episode hiatus from Robin we return to his first and only appearance in the classic animated series, Spongebob Squarepants.
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Pressure
Fraser's newest project which takes him to the role of General Dwight D. Eisenhower just days before D-Day in World War 2. All of the "pressure" is on Eisenhower to make this invasion happen soon to save the world as they know it, but wouldn't you know it... it's gonna rain...
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Propeller One-Way Night Coach
You might be looking at the title of this episode and thinking: "wait a minute, John Travolta's book he wrote way back in the 90s?". Well now our boy is making his directorial debut by adapting his fable for all ages to the screen. John does more than wear an interesting hat in this movie we can...
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Robin Williams: The Old Dog (Recap Episode)
"An Old Dog can't learn new tricks". Ever since Patch Adams, Robin's career had taken a major shift. From his blank check/post-oscar trilogy, to his evil-dark trilogy, to his family comedy roles; Robin's career goes from it's highest to its lowest in a decade. Jeff and Stuart talk about where…
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Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
We're back with the sequel, only this time we travel to the Smithsonian where Robin Williams gets maybe three scenes max in this movie, one which he's a bronze statue with no limbs. In this movie you will be tested on the strange world-building properties of the mystical tablet that brings all of...
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Shrink
Robin Williams plays Jack Holden, an actor whose career has gone down the drain and is struggling to cope with his addictive tendencies. Hmm... Shrink is one of those movies thats about the inner workings of the hollywood machine with the self-inserted writer character struggling to write his…
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World's Greatest Dad
Our second Bobcat Goldthwait and Robin Williams collaboration, only instead of killer clowns and mimes we have... an incel. Oh dear.
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August Rush
11-year-old August Rush, a musical prodigy who runs away from his group home to New York City to search for his long lost parents using the power of music which brings everybody together. For a movie as whimsical and fantastical as this would seem, Robin Williams' 'Wizard' character sure doesn't...
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License to Wed
Jim Halpert from the Office moves to Chicago and is engaged to Mandy Moore in this romantic comedy about an engaged couple having to go through a challenging marriage course with none other than Reverend Robin Williams who puts their relationship through the ultimate test... and also happens to…
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Night at the Museum
When Ben Stiller gets a job working as the night guard at the New York Museum of National History, he finds that all of the exhibits come to life! WOW! CRAZY!! Walking dinosaur skeletons, lions, monkeys, cavemen? Wait a second... civil war mannequins? Theodore Roosevelt? What kind of museum was...
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Happy Feet
Brought to you by the same director who made Mad Max, Mad Max 2, Mad Max Beyond The Thunderdome as well as... wait a second... The Witches of Eastwick? Lorenzo's Oil? BABE!? Wow this guy's got range cause after the pig movie he makes an animated movie about penguins who sing and dance. Not likely...
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Man of the Year
In 2006, Barry Levinson (Director of Good Morning Vietnam), decided to make a movie about a TV personality running for President and actually winning the election... what a totally unrealistic concept...
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Everyone's Hero
We're back! After taking a short hiatus the Travolting boys are back with the next Robin Williams installment: Everyone's Hero. An animated film about a young boy named "Yankee" who goes on a quest to retrieve Babe Ruth's lucky bat to ensure the New York Yankees beat the Chicago Cubs in the World...
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RV
In this wacky zany family comedy; Robin takes his family out on an RV road trip where they come across all sorts of cooky situations and strange personalities including Jeff Daniels and Kristin Chenoweth as the Gornicke family.
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The Night Listener
Robin plays a radio talk show host who comes across an inspiring story about a young boy and his mother, but upon further investigating, he realizes not everything is what it seems.
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The Big White
In this cold dreary time, we bring you a movie set in Alaska where Robin Williams tries to fake the death of his missing brother for life insurance money but Insurance Fraud Investigator Giovanni Ribisi starts to see the cracks in Robin's story. This is also the movie that made Robin drink again.
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Robots
From the same studio that made Ice Age, comes their second movie about a world where the machine rule, where humanity is all but a forgotten past... Wait... no... this isn't the Matrix... It's ROBOTS! "Aunt Fanny... we were using our arms!"
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House of D
Robin Williams plays a man with special needs who befriends a 13-year-old Anton Yelchin in 1970's era New York. That's about all we can really say about this movie since nothing else really happens. House of D? More like House of DISASTER...
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The Final Cut
A futuristic sci-fi drama about a brain implant technology that records your entire life, so that when you die, these editors known as "Cutters" splice and edit your entire life down to a feature length movie that plays at your funeral. Seems like an interesting concept for so many sci-fi movies...
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A Very Travolting Christmas 5: Noel
It's that time of the year everybody! We are back for our FIFTH Christmas episode for the Travolting podcast. This year we have a special treat because for this season we were given a very special gift that in our episode release schedule it just so happened that we were building up to a…
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The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch
A mockumentary sequel to a mockumentary about a fake Beatles parody band, only this time we are looking back at the influence and impact of The Rutles which features a multitude of A-list celebrity interviews, which is how we got roped in to covering this movie. None of us had seen the first…
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Insomnia
During Robin's "Evil Trilogy" era, he plays a murderer trying to coerce a very sleepy detective Al Pacino into helping him cover up his crime. A very standard old cat and mouse "who dun it" kind of movie except for one important detail. It's directed by up and coming director at the time,...
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Death to Smoochy
Robin plays Rainbow Randolph, a colorful children's TV Show Host that gets cancelled from the network and replaced with Edward Norton's Smoochy the Rhino. Rainbow Randolph does not take this well and vows an oath of vengeance to send the rhino straight to the deepest pit of hell. A lovely little...
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Rental Family
Brendan Fraser makes his first post-Oscar win leading role appearance as a struggling actor living in Japan who gets involved with a Rental Family business where he gets hired to fulfill emotional roles in real people's lives. From an absent parent, a surrogate son, to a friend you've always wanted.
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One Hour Photo
After a series of flops in the wake of his Oscar win, Robin decides to pivot and enters into his "dark Robin" era, starting with One Hour Photo where Robin plays a one hour photo technician who develops an unhealthy obsession with a family who he frequently develops photos for.
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AI: Artificial Intelligence
A topical film in today's current technological evolution though this episode is 100% human made with no AI generative content. Jeff, Stuart and Mark, while on the verge of tears, dive deep into the ethical and philosophical goliath known as Spielberg's 2001 film, AI: Artificial Intelligence....
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Bicentennial Man
The first of Robin's "Robotic" roles. In Bicentennial Man, Robin plays Andrew, a robot butler who serves a family but realizes he has a consciousness and a soul, but rather than ask the deeper and more meaningful questions like the sanctity of life, intrinsic value and the soul, Robin is more...
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Jakob the Liar
After the immediate flop of Patch Adams, Robin's next move in his post-Oscar win play is to portray a polish jew trying to survive in the ghetto during the Holocaust by telling fake stories to cheer up his neighbors and friends. What could possibly go wrong with that?
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Patch Adams
After winning the Oscar for Good Will Hunting, Robin Williams, at the top of his fame, decides to do a movie that will utilize all the parts of him that made audiences love and adore him: making sad people feel happy. Sounds nice at first, until you watch this movie...
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Robin Williams: The Thespian (Recap Episode)
Jeff and Stuart celebrate the decade of hit after hit during this superior time in Robin Williams' career from Dead Poets Society all the way to Good Will Hunting (with a couple of stinkers in between). After having won an Oscar, Robin has fully summited the mountain of Hollywood fame. But you…
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What Dreams May Come
Death, Heaven, Hell, The Afterlife, Reincarnation; these are all topics in the ethereal fantasy movie What Dreams May Come starring Robin Williams. Jeff, Stuart and reoccurring guest Mark Tilley dive deep into the weeds on the meaning of death, what comes after and how this movie approaches those...
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Good Will Hunting
Robin William's magnum opus in regards to his acting career. This movie is full of amazing messages and themes that resonate throughout time. Jeff and Stuart are joined by favorite guest of the show Charlie Schumann where they talk about Robin's role, his amazing performance, and the build up…
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Flubber
"Who hasn't made a Flubber in their lifetime?" - Jeff
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Deconstructing Harry
Jeff and Stuart's second time covering a Woody Allen movie but this one being a full fledged written by, directed by and starring Woody Allen about a writer who cheats on his many wives. An obvious complete fictitious fabrication from Allen's mind which bares no resemblance to any of his real…
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Father's Day
Besides their unscripted cameo on the popular TV Show "Friends", the only other project famed best friends Robin Williams and Billy Crystal would star in together was the 1997 film, Father's Day. With the comedic chemistry that exists between these two improv giants, you would think these two…
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Hamlet
To be (in this movie) or not to be (in this movie)... that is the question Robin Williams must ask himself as he joins back up with Kenneth Branagh for a short and quick role in his 1996 epic cinematic adaptation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
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The Secret Agent
"ITS SMEEE!!!" Just kidding its actually Bob Hoskins in a very different role portraying a russian agent who uncovers a conspiracy in which involves his special needs brother-in-law played by 22-year-old Christian Bale. Robin makes an "explosive" appearance in this film as "The Professor".
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Jack
From the director who brought you The Godfather Trilogy, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Megalopolis, comes a movie made for... well... nobody really... I mean we don't even know if Jack is made for kids only, adults only, or both. Either way, Jeff, Stuart and Brian had a blast talking about the rise...
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Aladdin and the King of Thieves
Wait a minute... isn't this the third Aladdin movie? Wasn't there one in the middle? Return of Jafar? Well you are correct but Robin Williams isn't in that one because of a dispute between himself and Disney. Aladdin and the King of Thieves, the second direct to video sequel of the classic first...
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The Birdcage
"Chewing gum helps me think!" "Sweetie, you're wasting your gum." Robin Williams and Nathan Lane play a gay couple who own and run a nightclub in Palm Beach Florida when their son's fiance's conservative parents (Gene Hackman & Dianne Wiest) decide to drive down to visit. An instant classic with...
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Jumanji
It's Stuart's greatest fear, getting Jumanji'd into one of his board games. But wait a second... is getting Jumanji'd when you go into the game or when the game comes out of the game to you? This 1995 adventure film stars Robin Williams as Alan Parrish who has been sucked into a board game trying...
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To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
A mouthful of a title but an important milestone of a film in queer cinema. Watch Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and John Leguizamo in drag drive across the country to compete in the Drag Queen of America contest and run into all sorts of interesting situations and personalities of which…
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Nine Months
This week's episode features a classic 90's rom com where Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore are suddenly expecting! Hugh Grant, the usual non-committal lover boy, has to come to terms with whether he's truly ready to be a father. Robin's role in this? Well obviously its the Russian gynecologist.
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A weekly investigation into the strange filmographies of cinemas most fascinating careers.
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