Le monde selon Garp

Original title: The World According to Garp

1982
R
2h 16m

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Robin Williams in Le monde selon Garp (1982)

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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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.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.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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IMDb RATING

7.1/10

30K

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POPULARITY

4,654

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 5 wins & 6 nominations total

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Trivia
Author John Irving's mother was not married at the time he was conceived. He never met his father nor would his mother talk about him. He eventually told her that if she didn't tell him about the father he would invent the man and circumstances of his conception. Her reply was "Go ahead, dear." "The World According to Garp" was that result.

Goofs
When Garp and his family are playing touch football at Dog's Head Harbor, it is the afternoon, In the next scene, where Garp and Roberta are talking, the sun is shown setting over the ocean. This could not occur as Dog's Head Harbor, New Hampshire is on the east coast of the United States, so the sun should be rising.

Quotes
Walt: Daddy, what's gradual school?
T. S. Garp: What?
Walt: Gradual school. Mommy says she teaches at gradual school.
T. S. Garp: Oh. Gradual school is where you go to school and you gradually find out you don't want to go to school anymore.

Crazy credits
Thomas Peter Daikos ....Flying Baby Garp

Alternate versions
In the theatrical release, when Roberta Muldoon is talking with Garp's mother Jenny about the accident, she says "...to have it bitten off in a Buick." The reference to Buick was subsequently removed, so Roberta now just says "...to have it bitten off."

Connections
Featured in Sneak Previews: The World According to Garp, The Aviator's Wife, Young Doctors in Love, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)

Soundtracks
When I'm Sixty-Four
Written by John Lennon (uncredited) and Paul McCartney (uncredited)
Performed by The Beatles
Courtesy of EMI Records, Limited

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Garp bit Bonkie

this is the only movie of robin williams' that i can sit through. in every other movie (too many to count), robin drops character more than once and becomes mr. lovable comedian. not because the script calls for it, but because i think he gets uncomfortable with acting and finds it easier to go back to his roots. even "good will hunting," where he is his most restrained in years. it helps that George Roy Hill is an amazing director, and that the story is odd enough that robin doesn't have to invent something weird to keep him interesting. glenn close and john lithgow are amazing in their roles. and robin is touching and funny without going overboard. a nice, quirky American classic. and who doesn't love the Beatles "When I'm 64"?