"Sometimes it's nice to be somewhere else." Nolan (Williams) has a great wife and a huge promotion coming at his job. He has everything going for him, but he has been keeping a secret from everyone his whole life. When he meets Leo (Aguire) he finally finds a way to be himself, but he still struggles with revealing himself. There are some movies that are made better by casting choices. There are some things that a person is the perfect choice for and you can't imagine watching it without them (Gandolfini in the Sopranos). This movie is the rare combination of those plus real world events that makes the movie actually transcend the screen and makes it feel more real and it has that much more of an impact. In this movie Robin Williams plays a character that struggle with something that he has to keep hidden from everyone while trying to be who they want him to be. The fact that he himself was trying to hide depression from everyone while trying to still be "Robin Williams" really adds an extra dimension to the character and makes the movie all the more emotional. The movie itself if just OK, but the real world events are really what makes this a movie to watch. Overall, very poetic that this is the final live action Robin Williams movie. It is almost his way of telling us how he was dealing with his problems. For that reason I recommend this. I give this a B+.

I liked this final Robin Williams film mostly because it shows how great an actor he really was. Williams stars as Nolan, a very nice, kind, sweet, unassuming 60 year old gentleman, who happens to be gay, but has kept himself in the closet for 50 years. His performance exudes happy frustration with his very being, making you wonder what really goes on behind the closed doors in his mind and home. How many stories in real life, Williams own included, have shown you seemingly happy people on the outside who, on the inside, can't take life anymore.

Nolan has reached this point by doing what was expected of him. He has worked in the same bank for 25 years. He lives with his wife Joy (Kathy Baker) whom he loves, but they don't do much other than have dinner and brief words. There is no intimacy, it seems they have never shared the same bed - no children. Obviously his wife must have known the truth. It makes me wonder why this issue never came to a flashpoint earlier.

This boring, risk-free life takes a change when Williams decides to chat up a male prostitute Leo (Roberto Aguirre) when he drives home past this known prostitute bridge. Why he chose this kid, it's never clear. Maybe he was thinking he could help this kid, who apparently used drugs, so maybe not a good choice, to lead a nice, happy, openly gay life. It's never clear.

The story goes on, a bit slowly, and Williams has to start building a web of lies to cover his contact with Leo. The consequences you might imagine are inevitable, but the ending offers you hope that, at least for Leo and Joy, perhaps things are working out for the best.

This is not a masterpiece, nor a must-see, but since we know it is William's last performance, you should see this performance that will remind you how great an actor we have lost. Now go out and rent Good Will Hunting or Good Morning Vietnam or Dead Poet's Society!!! Enjoy.

The anguish on Robin Williams' face throughout the movie in the role of gay man Nolan Mack may have offered a clue as to what his tortured mind must have been going through by the time he ended his life. It's something I couldn't help thinking about while watching a man who at one time would have been considered America's funniest comedian and comic actor. His death still resonates as a tragedy and an event that I find hard to reconcile with the facade he presented to his many fans. Nevertheless, Williams is effective in his role here, as he confronts the outcome of a U-turn made on a deserted city street which translates into a U-turn in his personal life. Without resorting to a virtually obligatory sex scene in a modern movie, director Dito Montiel handles his subject matter tastefully and with conviction, portraying mortgage banker Nolan Mack as a conflicted, closeted homosexual who hadn't found the fortitude to admit his orientation for almost fifty years. Now on the brink of a promotion, even with retirement on the horizon, Nolan is faced with a choice that his heart and mind must deal with in order to relieve his inner turmoil. Nolan's wife Joy (Kathy Baker) is just as conflicted as her husband, perhaps even more so, as she struggles to understand and accept his orientation, while firmly struggling to remain in a marriage that is ultimately unfulfilling. There are no easy answers here, and the movie's resolution will not resonate with all viewers, as it involves a depressing final confrontation between Nolan and his surrogate partner Leo (Roberto Aguire). This is the stuff of life, and as occurs in anyone's life, there are those disappointments one can do nothing about.