r/moviecritic • u/TapAdmirable5666 • 1d ago

Mrs. Doubtfire is a weird movie

So I got to choose a movie to watch with the kids (9, 13 and 15) and decided to show them a childhood classic. Mrs. Doubtfire.

That movie was a hell of a lot weirder then I remember.

I remember Pierce Brosnan being the bad guy but honestly the guy didn’t do anything wrong and is mostly the victim of Robin Williams.

And the part in the restaurant with Robin Williams telling him he has to compete with a vibrator which pounds like a jackhammer. WHAT KIND OF KIDS MOVIE IS THIS!? 😂

I mean the kids liked the movie so mission accomplished but damn the 90’s were something else.

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u/LordyIHopeThereIsPie 1d ago

Growing up is relating to the mother who comes home after a long day with a birthday cake and realising her husband once again gets to be the fun parent and she'll have to clean up his mess and she's just done with the relationship.

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u/TapAdmirable5666 1d ago

Yeah. It was a brave choice not letting them get back together but showing she was better off alone.

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u/D_Angelo_Vickers 1d ago

I read about this, they had an alternate ending where the parents got back together, but didn't want children of divorce to think that's going to happen with their parents.

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u/lkodl 23h ago

The legend goes that, that was the original ending, and Robin Williams refused to do the movie unless they changed it.

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u/Madrugada2010 13h ago

Yeah, he ran off with the nanny, so maybe he wanted to make it more realistic.

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u/Savitar2606 20h ago

I read it was also because he and Sally Field didn't get along during filming and they hated the idea of their characters getting back together.

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u/TweeKINGKev 14h ago

I know I read a story that during one of the court scenes Robin noticed Sally wasn’t herself and it was because her dad died and he said they could film the scene later and move on to other scenes that didn’t include her so she could go home and grieve her dad.

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u/Tardisgoesfast 8h ago

What I’ve heard is that became very close friends while they were working on it.