Robin Williams,
Mary Beth Hurt,
Glenn Close,
John Lithgow,
Hume Cronyn
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The 1982 film version of the John Irving novel The World According to Garp attempts to captures the quirky spirit while condensing the Irving original. Robin Williams plays the title character, the so... read more
Directed by: George Roy Hill
Release Date: July 23, 1982
Keywords:
robin williams,
glenn close,
john lithgow,
world according,
Robin Williams ,
Glenn Close ,
John Irving ,
John Lithgow
DVD Release Date: April 3, 2001
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May 7, 2011Drama, comedy and romance. A wonderful film, full of surprises, showing delicate theme, how: bastard sons, homosexuality, feminism, adultery and infantile sexuality. All this recounted by the protagonist, T.S. Garp. A great black romantic comedy, that commotion your spectator.
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September 16, 2009Williams, Close and Lithgo's performances are brilliant in this perfect Sunday afternoon film! Tragedy and hilarity go hand in hand in this adaption of John Irving's excellent novel.
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June 9, 2008It's the rare kind of movie that makes you want to read the book because I can only imagine how good that is. I also want to go rent more George Roy Hill movies.
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December 22, 2007Dazzling! Magnificent drama movie! The acting is impressive, with first-rate turns by Robin Williams as the title role, Glenn Close as his mother, and John Lithgow as a kindly transsexual.
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July 15, 2007A quirky drama about the life of Garp (Robin Williams) with some funny happenings thrown in. It's an interesting life he had. His nurse mother Glenn Close was great. Very adult. I wanted all the characters to be happy, but they got into things they shouldn't have.
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January 22, 2007Amazingly clever and funny movie. Some really bizarre things happen here, but not to where you can't suspend your disbelief. It's unusually human.
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January 6, 2007Early Robin Williams film which is more adult than his usual fare, but rather too self-conciously wacky, and not as clever as it thinks i is.
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March 2, 2011The World According to Garp both as a novel and a film takes a original and bizzare look at the world we live in, that is full of irony. Williams is magical as Garp whose entrance into this world is a story itself and the film features early work from Glenn Close and John Lithgow... read more
Critic Reviews
March 24, 2005
Alex Sandell, Juicy Cerebellum
August 26, 2002
Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Good effort, sometimes nearly great
May 17, 2001
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice
True to the spirit of the novel, the film compels us to consider the ambiguities of love, death, sex, and violence that characterize modern life. Full Review
February 27, 2001
James Kendrick, Q Network Film Desk
seems to waver between almost sitcom-like normality, and bizarre outlandishness Full Review
September 26, 2005
Cole Smithey, ColeSmithey.com
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July 4, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
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June 12, 2004
Eric Lurio, Greenwich Village Gazette
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