What if, before you were born, you were implanted with a device that recorded every act of your life - as seen through your eyes? What if this record only became available after you died - to be edited by a 'cutter' and presented to grieving family at your funeral? In The Final Cut, Robin Williams is Alan Hakman, a cutter. He is the best of the best. No matter how awful a person's life, he views it all, then deletes the bad bits and presents the family with the sanitised version. And then his own life starts to unravel.

Hakman is asked to edit the life of a top executive from the company that sells the implants.

An old friend of his (played by Jim Caviezel), an ex-cutter and now the leader of the protest movement, wants the record of the dead man's life.

The Final Cut is a quiet, almost suppressed drama about a man who sees himself as the ultimate priest, a 'sin eater', absolving people of their mistakes. Robin Williams gives an amazingly intense performance as a man under pressure, yet attempting to save himself at the end. The people in his life do their best to help him, but feel rejected.