The World According to Garp (1982)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.0/10   

Director:

George Roy Hill

Escritores:

John Irving (novel)
Steve Tesich (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

23 julio 1982 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Drama | Romance | Deporte

Frase comercial:

Robin Williams is Garp. He's got a funny way of looking at life.

Plot:

Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T S Garp, and his mother, Jenny. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer...

Plot Keywords:

Running | Oral Sex | Infidelity | Wounded Soldier | Writing

Premios:

Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Episodic. Like life itself.

Reparto

Robin Williams	...	Garp
Mary Beth Hurt	...	Helen Holm
Glenn Close	...	Jenny Fields
John Lithgow	...	Roberta Muldoon
Hume Cronyn	...	Mr. Fields
Jessica Tandy	...	Mrs. Fields
Swoosie Kurtz	...	The Hooker
James McCall	...	Young Garp
Peter Michael Goetz	...	John Wolfe
George Ede	...	Dean Bodger
Mark Soper	...	Michael Milton
Nathan Babcock	...	Duncan
Ian MacGregor	...	Walt
Warren Berlinger	...	Stew Percy - Steering School
Susan Browning	...	Midge Percy - Steering School

También conocida como:

El mundo de acuerdo a Garp (Argentina) [es]
El mundo según Garp (Spain) [es]

Duración:

136 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Iceland:12 (video rating) | Iceland:L | Singapore:M18 (DVD rating) | USA:R (Approved #26660) | Singapore:M18 | Argentina:13 | Peru:14 | Australia:M | Canada:14A | Finland:K-12 | Norway:16 | Sweden:11 | UK:15 | Canada:13+ (Quebec)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Bryant Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Compañía:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivialidades:

The house that the plane crashes into was built at one end of the only runway at Lincoln Park Airport, a very small airstrip in Lincoln Park, NJ USA (about 35 miles NW of New York City). The wrecked house was not removed for several weeks. While no planes have hit houses in the vicinity, one did bounce off the roof of a passing car several years earlier.

Errores:

Micrófono Boom visible: As Garp is chasing the errant truck driver for the second time, as they run around the front of the truck the boom mic is seen in the windshield of the truck and it is partly disguised with leaves to look like a branch. It comes down from the upper right of the windshield and wiggles a bit.

Citas:

Mrs. Fields: [first lines] Garp? Garp?
Jenny Fields: Yes, Garp.
Mr. Fields: Garp. Garp?

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Promoting Dystopia: Rendering the Poster Art (2007) (V)

Banda de Sonido:

There Will Never Be Another You

Episodic. Like life itself.

The World According to Garp is an unconventional film, to say the least. Not so much in the sense of how it looks, or how it is acted. More than anything the film stands out because it is a human drama that doesn't take a stance or one particular point of view. T. S. Garp is simply a man trying to live his life amongst all manner of eccentric characters and unlikely situations. And like life, things happen. People grow old. There are moments of joy. There are moments of tragedy. And people die.

Robin Williams plays the title character known by most as simply "Garp". His mother, played with dignified enthusiasm by Glenn Close, has brought him up all by herself. She is a nurse and during WWII, she used the sperm of a dying tail gunner who she happened to be caring for in his final moments. To call this woman a feminist would be a magnificent understatement. Her sexuality is never made that clear to the viewer but is is inferred by some around her that she is in fact a lesbian. Her only relationship with a man that we learn of is the encounter that produced her son, and she spends much of the film condemning the lusty ways of men and boys. As the film goes on, she becomes a famous writer and feminist leader. Garp spends much of his life trying to be a successful writer himself and raising a family, but he never seems to escape his mother's shadow.

The plot simply follows the life of Garp and his family members. A great many things happen to these people over the span of many years. Careers are made, children are born, affairs are had, and the joys of life are often shattered by terrible tragedies. Williams is decent enough as Garp. He maybe acts a bit too zany in the light-hearted scenes, but he nails the more dramatic ones pretty well. That's the amazing thing about Robin Williams. The guy is an absolute nut most of the time he's in front of a camera, but when he bears down and plays something serious, it's stunning to see how great his range can be. He is an undervalued actor. Glenn Close steals this film though in terms of acting. She owns every scene she's in much like how her domineering character towers over that of her son's. The supporting cast is more than adequate with John Lithgow getting major props for his daring turn as a transsexual with a heart of gold. The film seems to take its share of jabs at radical feminism as it depicts a sect of women knows as the Ellen Jamsians. These women cut out their own tongues to protest the similar fate of a rape victim. And boy do these ladies HATE men. An act of violence in one of the final scenes shows how fanatical they can be. (as if cutting out their tongues wasn't bad enough!) Each person who views this film will probably see something different in it, and those are my favorite kinds of films. There are moments of definite humor, surprise, hope, and tragedy. You will not be bored. The film is based on a popular novel by John Irving and is worth 9 of 10 stars.

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