Big White Williams

Continuing to prove there's more to him than Mork, Robin Williams is staying on the indie-film track after his villainous performances last year to star in dark comedy The Big White. Marking the beginning of what Williams himself has described as his 'brown' period, the Good Morning Vietnam star achieved a pretty impressive career turn-around in 2002 with eye-opening performances as murderer Walter Finch in Insomnia and snap-obsessed stalker Sy Parish in One-Hour Photo. And now he's plundering those dark corners of the Williams psyche again for Ali G Indahouse director Mark Mylod, whose dark tale revolves around one very strange travel agent indeed. In The Big White Williams will play an unusual holiday salesman who wants to plan a permanent road trip to a place in the sun in a bid to help his wife who suffers from - get this - psychosomatic Tourette's syndrome. To this end, the devoted husband decides to raise money by the novel method of stealing a corpse and pretending it's his long-missing (and presumably dead) brother. Quite how this will raise any readies is, however, not made clear. This 'plan' then goes suitably awry when two hitmen come looking for the body, which they had stashed after a job. Film history records that hitmen, corpses and comedy have never been a great mix