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The World According to Garp

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The World According to Garp

Robin Williams is Garp. He's got a funny way of looking at life.

6.7

2h 16m

1982

“Robin Williams is Garp. He's got a funny way of looking at life.”

Synopsis

A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.

Director

George Roy Hill

Trailer

DramaComedy

based on novel or bookpregnancywrestlingwrestlerchildlessnesspaternitylovewritertypewriterreflectivegay themehomosexuality

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Cast & Crew

Robin Williams

Robin Williams

as T.S. Garp

Mary Beth Hurt

Mary Beth Hurt

as Helen Holm

Glenn Close

as Jenny Fields

John Lithgow

John Lithgow

as Roberta Muldoon

Hume Cronyn

Hume Cronyn

as Mr. Fields

Jessica Tandy

Jessica Tandy

as Mrs. Fields

Swoosie Kurtz

Swoosie Kurtz

as The Hooker

Brenda Currin

Brenda Currin

as Pooh

Peter Michael Goetz

Peter Michael Goetz

as John Wolfe

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