Seize the Day

Seize the Day

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Job Hunting | Stock Exchange

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  • Genre(s): Drama
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Fielder Cook, Dwight Williams, Mark Croll
  • Cast(s): Robin Williams, Jerry Stiller, Joseph Wiseman, Glenne Headly, John Fiedler See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 1h 33min
  • Music: Tom Johnson,Leslie Shatz,Elizabeth Swados,Tom Bellfort,Gary Alper
  • Award(s): CINE Golden Eagle 1986 (Won)
    Grand Jury Prize 1987 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: "Wuthering Heights", 180
  • Story:
    Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as he heads to New York to pick up the pieces of his life. He's always been able to sell, but caught in a downward spiral, he must, in addition, face the father who never really understood him, while trying to balance his newly precarious existence.
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STORY

Story
Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as he heads to New York to pick up the pieces of his life. He's always been able to sell, but caught in a downward spiral, he must, in addition, face the father who never really understood him, while trying to balance his newly precarious existence.

AWARDS

Won
CINE Golden Eagle Award

Drama | 1986 | Fielder

Nominations
Grand Jury Prize Award

Dramatic | 1987 | Fielder

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

Coincidentally, lead Robin Williams went on to star in Dead Poets Society (1989) in which, as a teacher, he extolled the proverb - "carpe diem" - Latin for "seize the day."

Final film of Jo Van Fleet.

This was Joseph Wiseman's final film before his death on October 19, 2009 at the age of 91.

After watching this movie on PBS, Larry Charles was impressed by Jerry Stiller's performance and recommended to Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David that they cast Stiller in the role of George Costanza's father.

TV movie, commissioned by the network Public Broadcasting System (PBS), and originally scheduled for Fall 1986, but broadcast postponed to Spring 1987 due to delays in completion.

Popular Dialogues

"Man in Elevator: The truth is one parent can support ten children but ten children can't support one parent."

"Dr. Tamkin: Don't marry suffering the way some people do. They marry suffering. They eat with suffering. They sleep with suffering. And if they find some joy in their lives they think they're committing adultery."

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