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Release Date: 03 April, 2001 Retail Price: $14.96 OUR Price: $10.47 You SAVE: $4.49! Cast: Complete Cast (18 total) |
The World According to Garp Reviews
BREEZY "TERMS OF ENDEARMENT", BUT THEN IT GETS PREACHY
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.
I loved it!!Superb!!!!
This was one of those movies that makes you just stop and think about life. Garp, played excellently by Robin Williams, is a writer who's life is chock full of the trials and tribulations of love, death, adultory, and married life. Glenn Close (in her film debut) plays Garp's mother, a nuerotic -and often very annoying- nurse. John Lithgow is great as the transsexual ex-fotball player. the casting in this movie was spctacular. They couldn't have picked any better person for any role in the film. It was adapted by the magnificent novel by John Irving, whice I also loved. Overall,this masterpiece clearly earnes it's five stars.
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