: The Night Listener
Lame gimmicky story that I’d heard about prior to the movie: I knew it was about a radio talk show host talking on the phone to an abused 14-year-old who, it turns out, might or might not actually exist. The host, played by Robin Williams, is progressively gay, and much of the story is about his dreary love life (he just got dumped so we get to be depressed with him), which seemed off-topic and more an ad for the gay lifestyle than part of the story (every scene shouts out, “This is normal! This is normal!”). The mystery — is the kid real or not — is milked for as long as possible but becomes more and more far-fetched as we go along, and in the end, there’s nothing much to it. We find out the answer and the film just ends. Lame and disappointing.
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