World According to Garp VHS Video Tape Robin Williams Glenn Close, John Lithgow

This listing is for The World According to Garp VHS Video Tape Robin Williams, Glenn Close, John Lithgow.  

Actors: Glenn Close, Hume Cronyn, John Lithgow, Mary Beth Hurt, Robin Williams

Director: George Roy Hill

Producers: George Roy Hill, Patrick Kelley, Robert Crawford Jr.

Writers: John Irving, Steve Tesich

Rating: R (Restricted)

Run time: 2 hours and 16 minutes

Release date: April 1, 1992

Studio: Warner Home Video

Format: NTSC

When Robin Williams played T.S. Garp in The World According to Garp, two totally original icons met: a leading comic actor of our time and the character whose loopy adventures made John Irving's novel a literary milestone and runaway bestseller. Fans of Williams' dramatic work in Dead Poets Society and his Oscar winter* Good Will Hunting will also savor his Garp, a sweet-natured writer whose life is a weird minefield of violence, adultery, fatherhood, feminism and eerie coincidence. Glenn Close (in her film debut) as Garp's formidable mother and John Lithgow as a transgender ex-NFL receiver give impressive support, earning Oscar nominations and critics'' laurels galore. Their collaboration is "one helluva magnificent movie" (Bernard Few, Gannett Newspapers). *1997: Supporting Actor

Aside from being a warmly enjoyable movie, and the best screen adaptation of any John Irving novel, The World According to Garp features several young actors who went on to be among the best in the business. Oscar nominee John Lithgow is the sweetest transsexual ex-pro football player you'd ever hope to meet; Oscar nominee Glenn Close is a sensible, utterly sexless nurse and mother; Amanda Plummer is a mute crime victim; Mary Beth Hurt is a schoolgirl turned wife and mother, the love of T.S. Garp's life and the personification of the idea of Home. And Robin Williams, in his first starring role, has never been better cast--in the role of a human being, that is. This most unusual life story--written by Steve Tesich (Breaking Away) and directed by George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)--perfectly captures the tragi-comic, absurdist/humanist worldview of Irving's novel. The opening credits, with a wide-eyed baby floating about the screen to the tune of the Beatles' "When I'm Sixty-Four," sums up the movie's scope and tone. After watching The World According to Garp, you may find yourself marveling anew at the world around you, a strange and wonderful place indeed.

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