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The World According to Garp

2h 16m|R|Crime drama, Comedy, Drama, Comedy drama, Docudrama|1982
A nurse during World War II, Jenny Fields (Glenn Close) conceives with a dying pilot and bears a boy named T.S. Garp (Robin Williams) whom she raises alone. When Garp grows up, he has some success writing fiction, but not nearly so much as his mother has with feminist-themed nonfiction. Rich and famous, she starts a center for troubled women, and while Garp marries and has children, he remains a constant, if somewhat critical, observer of the strange community that forms around Jenny.

Director:

George Hill

Cast:

Robin Williams, Glenn Close, Mary Hurt, John Lithgow, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Swoosie Kurtz, James McCall, Peter Goetz, George Ede, Mark Soper
The World According to Garp
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