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In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.


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

Robin Williams
T.S. Garp

Mary Beth Hurt
Helen Holm

Glenn Close
Jenny Fields

John Lithgow
Roberta Muldoon

Hume Cronyn
Mr. Fields

Jessica Tandy
Mrs. Fields

Swoosie Kurtz
The Hooker

Brenda Currin
Pooh

Peter Michael Goetz
John Wolfe

Jenny Wright
Cushie
The World According to Garp is a drama, comedy film released in 1982 exploring themes of based on novel or book, pregnancy, wrestling, wrestler, childlessness, paternity. Directed by George Roy Hill, it stars Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close. 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.
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