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From:Nathan Babcock , Warren Berlinger , Susan Browning , Glenn Close , Hume Cronyn , Warner Brothers , Warner Home Video ,
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1 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 GARP BITES BACK!, 2002-06-17
I NEVER READ THE BOOK. BUT THE MOVIE IS A QUIRKY MASTERPIECE. I CAME ACROSS THIS FILM ON ONE OF THE MOVIE CHANNELS ONE MORNING. I HAD NO PLANS OF WATCHING A TWO HOUR (+) MOVIE AT THE TIME. HOWEVER THE MOVIE KEPT MY INTEREST WITH EASE. WITHIN A FEW DAYS I PURCHASED IT. I WATCHED IT AGAIN AND SAID TO MYSELF "THIS IS A GREAT MOVIE." ROBIN WILLIAMS, GLENN CLOSE, MARY BETH HURT AND JOHN LITHGOW ALL TURN IN OSCAR CALLIBAR PERFORMANCES. I CAN'T PRAISE THIS FILM ENOUGH. I DO KNOW IT'S AMONGST MY TOP 20 FAVORITES OF ALL TIME. THIS IS CLOSE'S FILM DEBUT. SHE DID GET AN OSCAR NOMINATION, AS DID LITHGOW.
10 of 21 customers found the following review helpful:
 A Very Disturbing Film, 2002-04-21
This movie disturbed me. This will not be a popular opinion here but it is an honest one. When I saw it in theatres years ago I left feeling defiled. A woman who hates men has sex with a dead man so she can give birth, a child killed and a child maimed for life because their father coasted into the driveway and hit an unexpected car that was in the driveway that contained his wife performing oral sex on one of her students, women cutting their tongues out in protest over another womans violent rape. My friends have told me that I just wasnt looking at the humorous side of it. Kind of a weird opinion on their behalf. I think whoever conceived this stuff is a very sick person with a very sick view of the world.
4 of 7 customers found the following review helpful:
A Sterling Cast All Around, 2002-04-11
As a long time Robin Williams fan, I fully expected to love his performance as the title character in this one-of-a-kind movie, based on the almost-impossible-to-read book by John Irving. Williams is grand here - far better than he was in "Good Will Hunting" for which he received an Academy Award. But the best part of the movie rests in the supporting performances from Glenn Close as Jenny (Garp's mom) and John Lithgow as the transexual Roberta. Both were Oscar nominated - deservedly so - for their rich, uncompromising performances, that transcend stereotypes and involve the audience every step of the way. Mary Beth Hurt as Garp's wife, hits her notes well, especially in the heart-wrenching scenes of marital infidelity that ultimately cost her dearly. Aside from these terrific characterizations, the movie boasts a number of unforgettable lines...."Garp bit Bonky" is a classic (when Williams bites a neighbor's dog), and who can ever forget the car coasting accident when Garp arrives home early (and stealthily) only to back into a car holding his wife and her lover (who pays dearly for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.) Uniquely enjoyable, and uniformly rich in every way, this is a better movie than "Cider House Rules" or "Hotel New Hampshire" - Irving's other two big screen adaptations. Should be in every serious DVD collector's short list of Must-haves!
A very well-done adaptation of the fabulous book., 2001-08-12
Definitely read the book first. Without that background, the viewer will miss many of the movie's references. However, the movie version impressed me. The actors were very well selected for their roles, and the film adaptation was about as good as it could possible be, although I still have to express the book's superiority. John Lithgow gave an especially surprising performance as the transsexual ex-Philadelphia Eagle, Roberta Muldoon, and Robin Williams uses his comic abilities to play a great Garp.
40 of 42 customers found the following review helpful:
Great Movie - Awful DVD, 2001-07-27
I've always been a big fan of The World According to Garp, so when it came out on DVD I picked it right up. As with many films The World According to Garp sat on my DVD shelf until I had a chance to watch it. Well, that night came this week and I gave The World According to Garp DVD a spin. I was shocked at how poorly this movie was treated on DVD. The audio is simply awful - I had to crank my receiver WAY up and even then I could hear a hiss in the audio track. The video is equally poor with scenes so riddled with edge enhancement that it looks like this DVD was mastered from the video tape! Also the DVD has zero special features. I know every release can't get Special Edition treatment, but The World According to Garp is so rich with possibilities - why not get John Irving to do a commentary (he did one for The Cider House Rules)? Robin Williams who could talk about the role that really launched him as a serious actor. Even director George Roy Hill (who also did The Sting, Slap Shot and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) is still around and has done commentaries! It's too bad that The World According to Garp was treated so poorly on DVD, and it's hard to tell people to skip the DVD of such a phenomenal film. [Geoffrey Kleinman DVDTalk.com]
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