Seize the Day

Seize the Day

5.0IMDb Score
Released:1986-09-09
Genre:Drama
Duration:93 min
Director:Fielder Cook
Actors:Robin Williams, Jerry Stiller, Joseph Wiseman, Glenne Headly, John Fiedler
Production:Learning in Focus

Overview:

Tommy Wilhelm 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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