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The World According to Garp

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

1982 · R · 2h 16m

Directed by George Roy Hill

6.7

TMDB audience score
406 votes, out of 10

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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.

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Cast

  • 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

  • John Irving
    Referee

  • Amanda Plummer
    Ellen James

  • Bette Henritze
    Woman Candidate

  • Katherine Borowitz
    Rachel

  • Kate McGregor-Stewart
    Real Estate Lady

  • Mark Soper
    Michael Milton

  • Warren Berlinger
    Stew Percy

  • Brandon Maggart
    Ernie Holm