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1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 worth seeing for Mary Beth Hurt , 2006-12-01
The movie based on John Irving's novel depicting the then rising movement of militant feminism and contrasting it with the truly liberated women, typified by Helen. The movie works best when it is lightly satirizing the militants in the first half. In the second, it becomes heavy-handed in its presentation--but then the militants are typically heavy-handed themselves.
As a movie, I found the effect somewhat scattered. It doesn't really work as a family-man movie, in spite of the many efforts in that direction. People do muddle through their lives, and in that respect the movie is realistic. But in the end, the effect is more of a so what? than a satisfying experience. And of course, a film about the militant feminists could not be made nowadays.
The best thing about the movie is Mary Beth Hurt, whose career more or less ended after this film when she divorced William Hurt and married a business man.
3 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
 What a world!, 2005-09-11
So strange, so full of surprises, so illigically logical, it's an impossible movie to describe. Robin Williams is Garp, born out of wedlock and raised by his loving (but strange) mother (Glenn Close). The movie traces his (and his mother's) life: both become writers - his books are very highly acclaimed by critics but go unread; her one book becomes a feminist manifesto and is extremely popular. Garp marries, has kids, whom he loves dearly and dotes on. His wife has an affair with disastrous consequences; his mother is eventually assassinated. That's the skeleton description of what's actually a very full-bodied movie. It's an extremely ambitious and unique "story" film. Long at 136 minutes, it never lags in interest. Steven Tesihch wrote the screenplay; based very closely on John Irving's novel. An excellent movie, definitely worth a watch.
5 of 16 customers found the following review helpful:
BREEZY "TERMS OF ENDEARMENT", BUT THEN IT GETS PREACHY, 2004-08-16
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.
14 of 15 customers found the following review helpful:
Riyach, 2004-06-26
I saw this movie by mistake when I was ten years old. I did not truely understand it. My parents didnt care because it featured Robin Williams, you know Mork. They had no idea of all the sexual content, bewilderment followed and 15 years later were almost forgotten, until I read the book in college. I felt affected by this movie then and when I viewed it recenly, the same feelings were conjured up. I highly recommend this film, its tragic, funny and at times you will laugh at times that seem very very inappropriate. The characters are rich and off-wall.
5 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
One of the Best Movies of All Time!, 2004-05-17
This is one of the best movies of all time. It's creativity and intelligence say a lot about the human race, even though often wayward, contains love in the places you least expect it to be.
Robin Williams is magnificent in this film. It is a little odd, but you leave the film with a lot of love and appreciation for the human race and a lot of sadness about the human race's shortcomings. The movie comes from a brilliant John Irving novel! Jeffrey McAndrew
author of "Our Brown-Eyed Boy"
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