The World According to Garp R
Robin Williams plays John Irving's quirky everyman, a wistful writer wrestling with our screwloose modern age.
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.85:1
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 16 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: February 11, 2014
- Originally Released: 1982
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt & Glenn Close | |
Performer: | John Lithgow, Hume Cronyn, Amanda Plummer, Swoosie Kurtz, Peter Michael Goetz, Jenny Wright & Jessica Tandy | |
Directed by | George Roy Hill | |
Edited by | Stephen A. Rotter | |
Screenplay by | Steve Tesich | |
Original story by | John Irving | |
Produced by | George Roy Hill & Robert L. Crawford | |
Director of Photography: | Miroslav Ondricek |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Robin Williams displays the acting chops that would later win him an Oscar
Juicy Cerebellum
[George Roy] Hill's "Garp" is a dense, rich, textured work, a sequence of scenes ultimately creating a complex, complicated life, one that is at once funny, horrifying and heartbreaking.
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Boston Globe
Rating: 3/4 --
Something has to be wrong with a film that can take material as intractable as Garp and make it palatable.
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Chicago Sun-Times
If the tragedy of this movie is its subliminal sexism, perhaps its hope lies in a sequel: The World According to Jenny.
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Sojourner
Rating: 4/5 --
Good effort, sometimes nearly great
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: 2.5/4 --
seems to waver between almost sitcom-like normality, and bizarre outlandishness
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Q Network Film Desk
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.
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Spirituality and Practice
Description by OLDIES.com:
Conceived in a hospital room by the independent, strong-willed Jenny Fields (who makes sure to choose a father who can never interfere with her decisions), T.S. Garp grows up in the placid academic atmosphere of the exclusive New England boy's school where Jenny works. As Garp becomes a man, the film shifts between the events that shape his world and those that shape his mother's. While Garp follows a "normal" path -- marrying, becoming a father, and establishing himself as an author and teacher -- Jenny continues to make extraordinary decisions and allies herself with a very strange group of characters. And through it all, Jenny remains a powerful, inescapable influence on her son.
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- Sales Rank: 16,812
- UPC: 883316995693
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