World’s Greatest Dad (2009)

High school teacher and unpublished writer Robin Williams is cursed with a vulgar and ungrateful teenaged son, Daryl Sabara. When Daryl dies during an unfortunate accident, Williams alters the death scene so that it looks like a suicide, a misunderstanding that he ends up taking advantage of in unexpected ways. An earlier and better take on the concept of Dear Evan Hansen, it effectively depicts the lionizing of the tragically deceased, especially for someone who was an asshole to everyone while living. Williams is great at portraying the beaten down personality of a father who, along with other misfortunes of life, has been burdened with such a child and the changes that being relieved of that burden brings to him. I have to appreciate a film that is so obviously filmed in Seattle, but does so without relying on flashes of the Space Needle or mountains and water.