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The World According To Garp


Director: George Roy Hill

Genre: Comedy

Year: 1982

Running time: 136 minutes

Territory: International

Studio: Warner

Cast: Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close, John Lithgow

Academy Award winner Robin Williams, Glenn Close and John Lithgow star in this film based on John Irving's expansive, offbeat best-selling novel.When Jenny Fields (Close) decides to become a mother, she has no intention of finding a husband or of having marital sex, so she gets herself pregnant by a hospitalized soldier on his deathbed. And so begins the unusual life of Garp (Williams), who is destined to be anything except what he himself desires most... to be normal.




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