Random Mrs. Doubtfire Is Actually A Dark Film About An Extremely Deranged Man (16 items)

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  (#2) Everyone Is OK With Robin Williams Stalking Them

  By the end of the movie, no one cares that Robin Williams was wearing the world's most expensive disguise to follow their every move and trick them into loving him again. The kids seem to think it's actually cool, and Sally Field finds it downright charming. A television executive even thinks it's such a great idea that he gives Mrs. Doubtfire a television show. What's wrong with this picture other than everything?
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  (#15) There Are Farm Animals Inside A House

  Who's cleaning up the mess of having a petting zoo run wild in the house? And when you have a picturesque home in San Francisco, your first thought isn't, "You know what would make this house even nicer? Piles of animal sh*t!" Setting aside Daniel's nightmare idea of throwing the messiest birthday party in history, why would anyone want to do that to their house? Even if you live in a one-bedroom apartment in Macon, GA, you wouldn't want to track a bunch of zebras through the living room. Nothing about this scene is endearing, and if anything, it serves to make the audience truly hate Robin Williams. 
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  (#10) Mrs. Doubtfire Is the Most Careless Stalker Ever

  It's safe to say that most stalkers try to keep some kind of distance between themselves and their target of interest, or if they're pretending to be a nanny in the home they've been forcibly removed from, they don't put themselves in a situation where they can slip up at any moment. Case in point: Robin Williams as Mrs. Doubtfire drinks a lot. And when he drinks, he gets careless, and the guise of a simple Scottish nanny begins to fall away. The most careless moment that comes to mind is when Williams is at the pool with his family and he gets blitzed while ogling young women. Come on man, try to hold it together for two hours. That's all you have to do. 
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  (#3) Sally Field Has No Idea What Her Husband Looks Like

  And more to the point, no one in this movie seems to know what Robin Williams looks like. Sure, he's buried under pounds of latex, but the face hasn't been changed all that much. It seems like all you would have to do to alleviate this issue is film a scene where someone says, "You look like my dad," or whatever, and then Mrs. Doubtfire plays air guitar with a vacuum cleaner. Was the Hillard family's home life so fractured that no one looked at anyone in the face? Who knew that Mrs. Doubtfire would be a visual representation of the unraveling of the nuclear family?
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  (#14) The Money That Robin WIlliams Spends On His Costume Could Be Used For Anything Else

  Do you know how much practical effects cost? Thousands of dollars. He had to buy a collection of masks that were perfectly molded to his face and that not only takes money for materials, but it costs even more money to pay someone to mold the piece and fit it to his face. With the money it takes to undergo this kind of criminal trickery, Daniel Hillard could have paid for a decade's worth of therapy for his children, because that's what they need by the time the credits are rolling on this film. 
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  (#9) Robin Williams Is Objectively A Horrible Father

  Daniel Hillard has all of the tools to be a great father. He has a cool job in the film industry, he's funny, and he's down to help out with the homework. But he uses all of those talents to make his kids feel terrible. Rather than bring them into his life, he shuts them out until he realizes that they're mad at them and then he plans a grand gesture in order to win them back. It's bipolar parenting at its worst, and even if having a petting zoo at your house for a birthday party seems like a good idea in the moment, if it's just done to smooth over some earlier slight, it's only going to make things worse in the long run. 

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