World's Greatest Dad (2009)
Directed by Bobcat Goldthwait
In the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy and the greatest opportunity of his life. He is suddenly faced with the possibility of fame, fortune and popularity, if he can only live with the knowledge of how he got there.
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While Williams provides him a very capable leading man, more than able to convey the wealth of conflicting emotions necessary to make the film ring true, Goldthwait ultimately pulls his punches, leaning for safety on a story structure rather obviously borrowed from Tootsie (which itself borrowed from Some Like it Hot) in order to give the picture a comfortable, if somewhat forced resolution.
First, the arrival of Edgar Rice Burroughs (played by the co-star of World’s Greatest Dad, Daryl Sabara) at the home of John Carter is boring and long and creaky.
Stories in which people pass others’ work as their own tend to be darker, whether dramatic a la Morvern Callar or as black comedy like in World’s Greatest Dad .