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Cast: Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Catherine Keener.

Director: Danny DeVito.

Writer: Adam Resnick.

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Death to Smoochy

Robin Williams plays the popular children’s show host Randolph Smiley, who is fired over a bribery scandal, when he is caught when parents are paying him for letting their kids on his show.

The Rainbow Randolph show is canceled and the TV station that aired Randolph’s show, is looking for a new show. The men in charge of the TV station want to find someone who has ethics and principals and who won’t end up in a big mess like Randolph did.

They find and hire Sheldon Mopes (Edward Norton), a squeaky clean, overly honest children’s entertainer and charity worker who soars to national popularity as the puffy purple rhino Smoochy.

Randolph has fallen on some bad times since his show was canceled. He has lost his apartment, he has no more money, and bills are piling up. When he sees Smoochy’s wild success,  Randolph loses it and blames Smoochy for his problems.

He becomes increasingly jealous as he watches Smoochy become much more popular than he ever was. Soon he finds out that his ex girlfriend Nora Wells (Catherine Keener) is dating Sheldon, and that drives him mad, so he starts plotting a fierce revenge against poor Smoochy.

Sheldon accidentally gets involved with bad people including members of the Irish Mob, who end up wanting to kill him. Although Randolph wants to kill Smoochy himself, he finally realizes that he is a sweet, innocent man.

After a violent outburst, where Sheldon is saved from being killed, he and Randolph meet face to face. The two (including Nora) decide to join forces as Rainbow Randolph and Smoochy the Rhino.

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