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 son of unmarried, unorthodox feminist Jenny Fields (Glenn Close, in her film debut). Every effort made by Jenny to broaden Garp's outlook on life -- she even arranges for him to spend the night with a hooker (Swoosie Kurtz) -- crams more fears and phobias into his psyche. Aspiring to become a novelist, Garp succeeds in this goal ...
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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 son of unmarried, unorthodox feminist Jenny Fields (Glenn Close, in her film debut). Every effort made by Jenny to broaden Garp's outlook on life -- she even arranges for him to spend the night with a hooker (Swoosie Kurtz) -- crams more fears and phobias into his psyche. Aspiring to become a novelist, Garp succeeds in this goal at the same time that his mother publishes her first feminist manifesto. Though successful and happily married to college sweetheart Helen Holm (Mary Beth Hurt), Garp remains envious of his fearless mother, who has taken in the radical "Ellen Jamesians," a group named after a young woman who had her tongue cut out by a rapist. Mutilation, in fact, becomes something of a leitmotif in Garp's life, climaxing (in every sense of the word) in an auto accident brought about by Helen's tryst with Michael Milton (Mark Soper). There is, of course, much more to the story than this: standing out amongst the dozens of offbeat supporting characters is John Lithgow as Roberta Muldoon, a transexual ex-football jock. John Irving appears as a referee during a college wrestling match, while director George Roy Hill plays the pilot whose low-flying plane crashes into Garp's new home. The World According to Garp didn't attract as large an audience as other, more conventional Robin Williams vehicles, though Close and Lithgow would both be nominated for Best Supporting Actor statues. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close, John Lithgow, Hume Cronyn. Very good in very good packaging. Language: English. Run time: 136 mins. Originally released: 1982.
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Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close, John Lithgow, Hume Cronyn. New in new packaging. Language: English. Run time: 136 mins. Originally released: 1982. item is brand new, sealed
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Very good. 1982 Run time: 136. Providing great media since 1972. All used discs are inspected and guaranteed. Digital copy/codes may be expired or not included. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close, John Lithgow, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Swoosie Kurtz, James McCall, Peter... Very good. 1979 Run time: 136. Providing great media since 1972. All used discs are inspected and guaranteed. Digital copy/codes may be expired or not included. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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Very good. 1982 Run time: 136. Providing great media since 1972. All used discs are inspected and guaranteed. Digital copy/codes may be expired or not included. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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Swoosie Kurtz, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close, John Lithgow, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, James McCall, Peter Michael Goetz,... Very good. 1982 Run time: 136. Providing great media since 1972. All used discs are inspected and guaranteed. Digital copy/codes may be expired or not included. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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George Ede, Peter Michael Goetz, James McCall, Swoosie Kurtz, Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn, John Lithgow, Glenn Close, Mary... New. 1982 Run time: 136. Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! Delivery Confirmation included for all orders in the US.
Thought it would be good...(Robin Williams is such a great actor, as is Glenn Close) but what a disappointing storyline. Do not watch with children! Descriptions of raping the incapacitated are supposed to be funny? Sex with anyone anywhere is supposed to be funny? More like animal behavior, (and not higher thinking mammals at that.) Not funny, not good drama, just a waste of time. Watch Mrs. Doubtfire again if you want to see Robin. P.S. "Toys" is worse!