Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Miscast

Robin Williams is horribly miscast in this film, and there are a number of actors who could have done the role and the film a lot of good. All of his strengths are under wraps, his weaknesses as an actor (he's just grim in serious drama, which is boring) up front. The big subtext in the story is not dealt with in either his performance or the film (is his fascination with a young teenager sexual?), leaving you with the impression it is (you get the feeling the producers felt no one would associate Williams with pedophilia so they just ignored it). This has to be the last thing they intended. There will hopefully be a drama that uses Williams in a way that releases his comic energies some day. The rest of the cast - particularly Toni Collette - is wonderful but mostly underused. This is a prime example of A List miscasting, almost up there with Whoopi Goldberg in "Fatal Beauty". It could have been interesting.