Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close
Aside from being a warmly enjoyable movie, and the best screen adaptation of any John Irving novel, The World According to Garp features several young actors who went on to be among the best in...( read more
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DVD Release Date: April 3, 2001
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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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May 26, 2008in parts so slow I got bored and in others so fast I couldn't catch up. As much as I love Robin Williams, this isn't necessarily a film I'd want to see again.
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January 29, 2008Saw this years ago. Although it is advertised as funny and unconventional, I found it to be sad, and not funny at all. Big thumbs down.
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October 30, 2007Based on the novel ny John Irving, this touching, quirky and sad 'coming of age' story remains a cult classic. A little dated now, but ultimately engaging and interesting. Glenn Close is great in her feature debut and Williams shows his flair for both drama and comedy. Some great...( read more)
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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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November 2, 2009George Roy Hill's film buckles under the magnitude of its source material, but still manages to be a watchable movie. Perhaps my opinion is biased, since I read and loved the novel only a few months before seeing this adaptation. John Irving's book is a rich, complex and profound...( read more)
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October 27, 2009Such a darkly funny, bizarre, and brutal film. I love this movie, despite it's many differences to the book.
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September 6, 2009in this ten years of my past i watched again and again. always touching my heart and never get me bored.
life is somehow odd and sometimes too hard to survive,but still worth keep going.
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