Death to Smoochy
Robin Williams plays a kid’s show host out for revenge in Danny DeVito’s sinister black comedy. Smoochy the Rhino is the object of Williams’ wrath, a hapless comic played by Edward Norton. The 2002 film co-stars Catherine Keener as the hard-nosed exec who ends up smooching Smoochy and Jon Stewart is on board as a shady kid’s show producer.
About J. D. Lifshitz
J. D. Lifshitz is the co-founder and producing partner of Los Angeles based production and sales company BoulderLight Pictures. Their most recent credits include The Vigil (TIFF '19, SXSW '20), Becky (Tribeca '20), and Wild Indian (Sundance '21). BoulderLight's upcoming slate includes Rodney & Sheryl, to be directed by Chloe Okuno and starring Anna Kendrick, and The Cow, written and directed by Homecoming creator Eli Horowitz and starring Winona Ryder, Dermot Mulroney, and John Gallagher Jr.