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8E THE MIAMI HERALD WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 24 1993 a drag but nanny is a hoot A TERRIFIC tan 4 Eton vish of manic stuff You take Mrs Doubt fire seriously for a moment its daddy-track sympathies notwithstanding and know exactly where going at every turn laugh though Robin Williams will not be denied DdirMiftmOflkDAILt VtkS V1CT0RNLSEZ m-w OCTOlii ances this film is nothing if not maudlin a big-time assault on the tear ducts character winds up losing custody of the kids and allowed visitation only once a week When he learns that his wife a busy interior decorator (yes a Quayle deal all right) intends to hire a nanny to care for the kids each day after school he goes for the big makeover There are some subplots here including a rickety bit of business about how the Williams character might become a TV star but the movie really about anything else beyond Mork in a dress Williams waddles on his heels he smiles his sweet smile he sets his bodice on fire in the kitchen all there Actually some of there has been around for a while: a housecleaning-to-the-oldies montage straight out of the routine that made Tom Cruise a star in Risky Business 10 years ago But the few bits of original material that Williams does have jazzed up by his own comic nils are enough to make this a surefire smash American movies have always loved drag shows but never had anyone quite like Robin Williams behind the pancake and stuffed into the foundation garments At his best Williams seems to be operating well outside the careful designs of director Chns Columbus (Home Alone Columbus has a nice way with door-slamming farce in the English tradition and this movie has some of that too But Williams is a one-man farce a der MRS FROM IE the film opens he is in the process of being fired from his latest voiceover job for trying to inject some anti-smoking propaganda into a cartoon So we know nght away a good guy We soon find out also the kind of dad that gives moms fits On the way home he picks up their three kids and when he finds out that Mom (Sally Field) has canceled the 12th birthday party as a punishment for bad grades he cheerfully overrules her and goes ahead with a kind of kiddie bacchanal replete with petting zoo and his own rap routine When Mom gets home she asks for a divorce on the spot hard to blame her) and the real plot gets under way Through a series of contriv WCV Cast Robin Williams Sally Field Pierce Brosnan Harvey Fierstein Polly Holliday Lisa Jakub Matthew Lawrence Mara Wilson Director: Chris Columbus Producers: Marsha Garces Williams Robin Williams Mark Radcliffe Screenwriters: Randi Mayem Singer Leslie Dixon Cinematographer Donald McAlpine Music: Howard Shore A Twentieth Century-Fox release Running time 121 minutes Vulgar language Playing at area theaters Wake up to famous faces every morning with The Miami Herald's Page Two column 'f WINNER BEST FILM-BEST ACTRESS HOLLY HUNTER CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 1993 0 BrEATHTAKIiGEXHILARATINGA triumph! 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