Bob Goldthwait

I think Bobcat Goldthwait is one of the most consistently interesting filmmakers at work today. We’re talking fingers-of-one-hand rank here. His current picture, God Bless America is not necessarily his best, but it is still provocative, funny ...  

Reviewed by Daryl Loomis Quote: "Without question, You Don't Look the Same Either is the funniest stand-up special I've seen in a long time. While the style may be normal, the material is anything but."  

God Bless America: For a movie that starts off with a man fantasizing about killing his annoying neighbors and their baby, Bobcat Goldthwait's God Bless America has a very hippie underbelly.... From Charleston City Paper.  

As I noted on Twitter, standing in line to see a Bobcat Goldthwait movie today says something very different about you than standing in line to see a Bobcat Goldthwait movie in the 1980s. Goldthwait is way better behind the camera than he is in front of it. His best movie, Sleeping Dogs Lie, is at once a rude, raunchy sex comedy about a woman who gave a blowjob to a dog in college and a quiet character study exploring why you shouldn't be...  

Throughout his career, there’s been a disconnect between Bobcat Goldthwait’s dim, high-pitched persona in ’80s mainstream comedies like the Police Academy movies and Hot To Trot, and the dark sophistication of his stand-up comedy and the four independent features he’s written and directed. In recent years, he’s given up acting altogether to focus on the latter pursuits, and critical acclaim has followed...  

GOD BLESS AMERICA* * starsOpens Friday at Colony Theatres Screechy-voiced comedian-turned-dark-comedy auteur Bobcat Goldthwait once again attempts to mix the extreme with the profound in his new, bullet-ridden satire God Bless America. He casts Joel Murray (Bill’s brother and Goldthwait’s co-star in that long-lost ’80s comedy One Crazy Summer) take the lead as Frank, a miserable divorcée whose life goes down the drain even more...  

God Bless America is cinema at its absolute, bloody best. Original, thought-provoking and fun, Bobcat Goldthwait's latest effort has something for everyone, except those who are offended by violent killing sprees (but given we are in America ...  

by Steve Dollar Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait, whose career as a filmmaker has yielded such dark and excoriating satirical fare as Shakes the Clown and World's Greatest Dad, has been making the festival rounds for months with his latest comedy, God...  

Bobcat Goldthwait finishes an enthusiastic blast of profanity — aimed at your intrepid interviewer — and laughs. Being reminded that on Saturday, his 50th birthday, that he can expect an AARP membership application, caught him off guard.  

Frank (Joel Murray) is an outcast. We first meet this divorced, 50-ish, glumly alcoholic white-collar worker — the protagonist of Bobcat Goldthwait's God Bless America — on one of his sleepless nights, entertaining homicidal fantasies about the couple next door. "They're incapa...  

Frank decides to eradicate it whenever and wherever he encounters it — whether it means storming the stage of a music competition show in which the judges are making fun of a William Hung-like contestant or killing people who are talking on ...  

Bobcat Goldthwait has had a one-of-a-kind career. After years of acting in crap like “POLICE ACADEMY”, he began to focus solely on his work as a stand-up comedian and as a filmmaker (his first film, “SHAKES THE CLOWN”, has earned the ...  

Bobcat Goldthwait is many things to many people. He was that guy from the "Police Academy" movies and the celebrated stand-up comic who lit Jay Leno's chair on fire on national television. He was fired from "Hollywood Squares" and his memorable ...  

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Some people have sick and twisted ideas and end up in jail. Some people have sick and twisted ideas and end up making great, funny, twisted movies. Comedian, writer and director Bobcat Goldthwait is thankfully one of the latter. His latest movie is God Bless America.