who the heck be responsible for this terrible mangling of one of my favorite book . this be just terrible . terrible acting and terrible script . the story isn not even close to it old self and what be they think . robin williams and for gosh sake . this really defy description . don not see this . seriously and do not . not even for laugh . especially not if youre a fan of the book . this might just be the bad movie adaptation ever everything be disjoint and scramble the character which be important in order to understand the sequence of event be seriously marginalize and and every potentially interesting location from the book have be change ( example represent vienna new york ) into something profoundly uninteresting . for those who haven not read the book it basically a fictional biography about a writer grow up and explore his writing and so on . his mother write an autobiography which be hail ( despite her protest ) a a sort of feminist manifesto . the book be well write and engage and and long . it prose be simply beautiful . this movie and on the other hand and be about robin williams once again tell u to seize the day .