The World According to Garp | | Cast : | Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close | | Director : | George Roy Hill | | Studio : | Warner Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, Dolby, Widescreen | | Released Date : | July 23, 1982 | | DVD Released Date : | June 07, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 16, 2004 | | Summary | BREEZY "TERMS OF ENDEARMENT", BUT THEN IT GETS PREACHY | Content
 | For all its lovely odysseys, The World According to Garp is an oddly unaffecting movie. Interesting, yes. Original, occasionally. Amusing, often. But despite the fact that it sets itself up as a tragicomic social satire walking several different ropes at the same time, not much of it really stays with you after it's over.
One minute we have a character gaping doe-eyed at his children, speaking lovingly about the joys of fatherhood, and the next minute he's taking an iron pipe to an electrician's truck because the electrician was driving too fast through the neighborhood. Which is all fine, thanks in no small measure to the convincing wigs of John Lithgow as a transvestite.
Holes begin to appear when all this reverie is broken with grave issues like a cultic feminist group, members of which cut off their tongues in protest for a young girl's rape. Deep. Our protagonist Garp wishes to lead a happy life of apathetic normalcy (not altogether different from what the audience wants, really) but his mother has other plans. When the film gets preachy, we have little choice but to squirm and play along.
To be fair, the film is a very decent rental ride though, sporting a fairly blithe tone, a sprawling scope to appeal to different pallettes, and some fabulous performances all round (you can see why Williams shot to fame shortly after this film), both on-screen as well as off-screen (in the form of the best Beatles number ever).
A recommendation somewhere between mildly pleasing and terrific. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 26, 2004 | | Summary | Riyach | Content
| I saw this movie by mistake when I was ten years old. I did not truely understand it. My parents didnt care because it featured Robin Williams, you know Mork. They had no idea of all the sexual content, bewilderment followed and 15 years later were almost forgotten, until I read the book in college. I felt affected by this movie then and when I viewed it recenly, the same feelings were conjured up. I highly recommend this film, its tragic, funny and at times you will laugh at times that seem very very inappropriate. The characters are rich and off-wall. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 05, 2004 | | Summary | Simply Put - A Great Film | Content
| This is easily one of the 10 best comedy films of all time. Robin Williams showed us he was a great actor in his very first starring roll in a feature film. Glenn Close was fantastic and John Lithgow should have won an Acdemy Award for his performance. Unfortuneately, this film came out long before comedy films won any awards. It is definately a timeless piece that should be seen. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 04, 2004 | | Summary | Compared to the book this stunk | Content
| I'm in the 11th grade and I just read the book and i thought that it was incredible. I figured maybe if the book was so good then the movie would be good. Right? WRONG. The movie on its own was ok. If you don't read the book more then likely you wouldn't understand the movie though. Even though i found many differences between the book and dvd. If you want a real treat, read the book. This movie is a good example of why you can't make a 600 page book into a two hour movie. Compared the book, I thought this movie was trash. The book was an incredible piece of literature and this movie came no where close. The actors do do a very good job in the movie and Robin Williams was incredibly. I felt there were many scenes were dissappointing. FOr instance, I found the end very dissapointing. I won't say what happens, but thats just my opinion. Read the book, much better then the movie. |
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