Sad ending


I got to see this movie just recently. I found the ending sad because at the end of the movie Robin Williams is ready to leave the set and he is offered drugs and he just walks out. You see him walking out to a bigger and brighter future and you feel he is going to go straight and he will go on to be great. He did go on to be great, but his inner demons got the better of him and he commit suicide later in life. I've read that the reasons for his suicide were battling depression for years and alcoholism. It also came out that he had Parkinson's. While the movie had a happy ending, it was very sad knowing that Robin's life didn't. Robin Williams' life met with a very very sad end. Every time I see one of his movies now, I still can't believe he's gone and the way he died. When I first heard the news, I was shocked. When all of the details came out, I felt even worse. It was so horrible.

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ummm..... so, you basically gave it your own ending.

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You didn't mention his heart problems and multiple heart surgeries so you could have made his life even more depressing.

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Actually, shortly before he passed, he'd been diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia, a horrible and incurable disease. So I wouldn't say his inner demons won in the end. At the last he decided to spare himself years of suffering while he still had control of his mind and body, and he isn't the only one who'd make that choice if faced with the same prospect, and consider it the most rational option.

May he rest in peace, and with the gratitude of anyone with a sense of humor.

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I thought they found out he had Lewy Body Dementia after he passed away and that while he was still with us they thought he had Parkinson's, which is similar but definitely not the same as Lewy Body Dementia.

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I had heard that he'd been diagnosed with LBD shortly before his death, but I don't remember the source and I'm not going to research the point.

LBD is a horrible disease, and the fact is that Williams saved himself years of terrible suffering.

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Pam Dawber was so hot. I only grew to tolerate Robin Williams many many years after this show,

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