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Robin Williams' Final Role As Gay Character May Be Forever Forgotten

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The last film Robin Williams acted in before his death in August featured him playing a gay man struggling to come out. Despite positive reviews after its showing at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival, the film is now in danger of falling into obscurity because producers can't find a mainstream distributor for it.

Directed by Dito Montiel, Boulevard features Williams as an older man struggling to come out as gay later in life. Inundated with marital problems and a loveless straight marriage to his wife, Williams' character, Nolan Mack, falls in love with a male prostitute.

Chief among Boulevard's accomplishments was an advantageous approach to the main character's sexuality, which Variety critic Peter Debruge said in April 2014 is "almost secondary to the ways in which straight audiences can relate."

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According to a source speaking to The Mirror Sunday, the film's cast and crew have found it nearly impossible to secure a mainstream distributor that could bring the film to theaters, DVD, and other online video platforms like Netflix:

“It’s really sad but it is looking impossible that Boulevard will ever see the light of day now.

It has proved to be a struggle for it to find the support it needs to be released.

The cast have tried, as have the crew. But for many reasons it is looking very unlikely.

There is one suggestion it isn’t up to scratch and is failing on merit to find anyone to distribute it.”

Boulevard is one of four unseen films Williams starred in that have yet to be released after his death. The three other films, A Merry Friggin' Christmas, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb and British comedy Absolutely Anything have already secured major mainstream distributors.

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