list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around The World According to Garp on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/The_World_According_to_Garp/38882/default.aspx Title: The World According to Garp
Year: 1982
Director: George Roy Hill
Plot: The 1982 film version of the John Irving novel The World According to Garp attempts to captures the quirky spirit while condensing the Irving original. Robin Williams plays the title character, the son of unmarried, unorthodox feminist Jenny Fields (Glenn Close, in her film debut). Every effort made by Jenny to broaden Garp's outlook on life -- she even arranges for him to spend the night with a hooker (Swoosie Kurtz) -- crams more fears and phobias into his psyche. Aspiring to become a novelist, Garp succeeds in this goal at the same time that his mother publishes her first feminist manifesto. Though successful and happily married to college sweetheart Helen Holm (Mary Beth Hurt), Garp remains envious of his fearless mother, who has taken in the radical "Ellen Jamesians," a group named after a young woman who had her tongue cut out by a rapist. Mutilation, in fact, becomes something of a leitmotif in Garp's life, climaxing (in every sense of the word) in an auto accident brought about by Helen's tryst with Michael Milton (Mark Soper). There is, of course, much more to the story than this: standing out amongst the dozens of offbeat supporting characters is John Lithgow as Roberta Muldoon, a transexual ex-football jock. John Irving appears as a referee during a college wrestling match, while director George Roy Hill plays the pilot whose low-flying plane crashes into Garp's new home. The World According to Garp didn't attract as large an audience as other, more conventional Robin Williams vehicles, though Close and Lithgow would both be nominated for Best Supporting Actor statues. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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]]>Fri, 15 May 2009 17:45:59 GMTThe World According to Garp1982George Roy HillThe 1982 film version of the <a href="/players/P___275286/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>John Irving</a> novel The World According to Garp attempts to captures the quirky spirit while condensing the Irving original. <a href="/players/P___116900/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Robin Williams</a> plays the title character, the son of unmarried, unorthodox feminist Jenny Fields (<a href="/players/P____13725/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Glenn Close</a>, in her film debut). Every effort made by Jenny to broaden Garp's outlook on life -- she even arranges for him to spend the night with a hooker (<a href="/players/P____39635/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Swoosie Kurtz</a>) -- crams more fears and phobias into his psyche. Aspiring to become a novelist, Garp succeeds in this goal at the same time that his mother publishes her first feminist manifesto. Though successful and happily married to college sweetheart Helen Holm (<a href="/players/P____34101/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Mary Beth Hurt</a>), Garp remains envious of his fearless mother, who has taken in the radical "Ellen Jamesians," a group named after a young woman who had her tongue cut out by a rapist. Mutilation, in fact, becomes something of a leitmotif in Garp's life, climaxing (in every sense of the word) in an auto accident brought about by Helen's tryst with Michael Milton (Mark Soper). There is, of course, much more to the story than this: standing out amongst the dozens of offbeat supporting characters is <a href="/players/P____42686/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>John Lithgow</a> as Roberta Muldoon, a transexual ex-football jock. John Irving appears as a referee during a college wrestling match, while director <a href="/players/P____94375/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>George Roy Hill</a> plays the pilot whose low-flying plane crashes into Garp's new home. The World According to Garp didn't attract as large an audience as other, more conventional <a href="/players/P___116900/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Robin Williams</a> vehicles, though Close and Lithgow would both be nominated for Best Supporting Actor statues. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide19Tag Target (>10)13213http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t10472gj7r0.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/The_World_According_to_Garp/38882/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/ibetolis/archive/2008/7/29/33259.aspx Post By: Ibetolis
Post To: Film for the Soul
Post Date: 7/29/2008 6:03:22 PM
Body: No. 12- The World According To Garp (George Roy Hill, 1982) Ranked - #998 Honey, the chances of another plane hitting this house are astronomical. See? It's been pre-disastered. - T.S GarpWhilst voting is on as to what film I should watch next in this series, I've still got a couple left to review, so let's get on with it shall we.You know that moment half way through a film when you realise that you've actually seen it before? I was oblivious for the first half hour whilst watching The World According to Garp (or GARP, to save on time) before suddenly remembering the whole thing, including the ending. This in itself is nothing spectacular, I was young at the time and probably not paying much attention, however it could have solely been that GARP isn't that memorable.Based on the best selling novel, of the same name by John Irving, GARP chronicles the life of T.S Garp (Robin Williams), a struggling everyman beset by the destructive forces of modern society, from his illegitimate birth, the tragic, comedic and surreal things that happen in it to his untimely death. Overshadowed by his domineering, unorthodox feminist mother Jenny Fields, (Glenn Close, incidentally only four years older than Williams and starring in her first feature film), Garp aspires to be a writer, only for his mother to publish her feminist manifesto, becoming something of a celebrity and spokeswoman for disaffected women.In adapting straight from the novel, GARP fails to translate any sort of semblance or meaning from Irving's work, what delights and enraptures on the page won't necessarily do the same on the big screen. As one would expect from a competent and adroit director such as George Roy Hill, director of such Hollywood fair as Throughly Modern Millie, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting, GARP is an accomplished looking film, however by slavishly following the events of the novel Hill inadvertently reveals the limitations in doing so, GARP ends up being entertaining but slight, competent but flawed.Overall this isn't a disastrous film, the casting for example although initially eye-raising is rewarded with some excellent performances, especially from Williams, Close and a brilliant turn from John Lithgow as the transsexual ex-American footballer, a role which could easily have been lampooned but is played with real dignity and affection. There are stand out scenes, such as the infamous moment when a plane flies into a house that Garp and his wife Helen (Mary Beth Hunt) are planning to buy, incidentally the pilot is played by George Roy Hill himself. Even John Irving turns up in a cameo role as a referee officiating one of Garp's high school wrestling matches.Watch John Irving 'acting'.Garp feels like a film of could have beens and missed opportunities, of over simplification and guilty of not stamping enough authority with it's own interpretation. There were moments when I thought that the film would delve deeper, a touching scene when Garp talks about the inspiration for his story regarding magic gloves and the sub-plot regarding the 'Ellen Jamesians, a group of woman that had voluntarily cut out their own tongue in support of a woman who had her tongue cut out by her rapist, gave me hope but they both petered out and came to nothing; Pretty much like the film itself. Originally posted on:Film for the Soul
]]>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:03:22 GMTIbetolisFilm for the Soul7/29/2008 6:03:22 PMNo. 12- The World According To Garp (George Roy Hill, 1982) Ranked - #998 Honey, the chances of another plane hitting this house are astronomical. See? It's been pre-disastered. - T.S GarpWhilst voting is on as to what film I should watch next in this series, I've still got a couple left to review, so let's get on with it shall we.You know that moment half way through a film when you realise that you've actually seen it before? I was oblivious for the first half hour whilst watching The World According to Garp (or GARP, to save on time) before suddenly remembering the whole thing, including the ending. This in itself is nothing spectacular, I was young at the time and probably not paying much attention, however it could have solely been that GARP isn't that memorable.Based on the best selling novel, of the same name by John Irving, GARP chronicles the life of T.S Garp (Robin Williams), a struggling everyman beset by the destructive forces of modern society, from his illegitimate birth, the tragic, comedic and surreal things that happen in it to his untimely death. Overshadowed by his domineering, unorthodox feminist mother Jenny Fields, (Glenn Close, incidentally only four years older than Williams and starring in her first feature film), Garp aspires to be a writer, only for his mother to publish her feminist manifesto, becoming something of a celebrity and spokeswoman for disaffected women.In adapting straight from the novel, GARP fails to translate any sort of semblance or meaning from Irving's work, what delights and enraptures on the page won't necessarily do the same on the big screen. As one would expect from a competent and adroit director such as George Roy Hill, director of such Hollywood fair as Throughly Modern Millie, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting, GARP is an accomplished looking film, however by slavishly following the events of the novel Hill inadvertently reveals the limitations in doing so, GARP ends up being entertaining but slight, competent but flawed.Overall this isn't a disastrous film, the casting for example although initially eye-raising is rewarded with some excellent performances, especially from Williams, Close and a brilliant turn from John Lithgow as the transsexual ex-American footballer, a role which could easily have been lampooned but is played with real dignity and affection. There are stand out scenes, such as the infamous moment when a plane flies into a house that Garp and his wife Helen (Mary Beth Hunt) are planning to buy, incidentally the pilot is played by George Roy Hill himself. Even John Irving turns up in a cameo role as a referee officiating one of Garp's high school wrestling matches.Watch John Irving 'acting'.Garp feels like a film of could have beens and missed opportunities, of over simplification and guilty of not stamping enough authority with it's own interpretation. There were moments when I thought that the film would delve deeper, a touching scene when Garp talks about the inspiration for his story regarding magic gloves and the sub-plot regarding the 'Ellen Jamesians, a group of woman that had voluntarily cut out their own tongue in support of a woman who had her tongue cut out by her rapist, gave me hope but they both petered out and came to nothing; Pretty much like the film itself. Originally posted on:Film for the Soul http://www.spout.com/groups/movie_maniacs/Re_Robin_Williams_really_versatile/248/17290/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: lukasblu
Post To: movie_maniacs
Post Date: 8/4/2007 8:59:25 PM
Body: how about The World According to Garp (1982) and does Patch Adams (1998) or Being Human (1993) count?and there was a litle bit of comedy on robin williams character in House of D (2004), ;this movie is actually a good /different change of character to what robin williams usually plays
]]>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:59:25 GMTlukasblumovie_maniacs8/4/2007 8:59:25 PMhow about The World According to Garp (1982) and does Patch Adams (1998) or Being Human (1993) count?and there was a litle bit of comedy on robin williams character in House of D (2004), ;this movie is actually a good /different change of character to what robin williams usually plays http://www.spout.com/blogs/lbenschwartz/archive/2007/6/5/10221.aspx Post By: lbenschwartz
Post To: lbenschwartz Blog
Post Date: 6/5/2007 9:07:00 PM
Body: Summer movie seasons come and go, but there was something the summer of 1982 ranks amongst the greatest. What made 1982 so special? Well, while your standing in line, waiting for the third recycling Spiderman, Shrek, Pirates or Oceans, think about what you could have been going to your, most likely newly opened, suburban Cineplex. These were the movies of 1982:May 14: Conan the BarbarianMay 21: Road WarriorMay 28: Rocky 3June 4: Poltergeist and/or Star Trek: The Wrath of KhanJune 11: E.T.June 25: Blade Runner and/or The ThingJuly 9: TronJuly 23: The World According to GarpJuly 30: Last American Virgin and/or Night ShiftAugust 13: Fast Times at Ridgemont High and/or Officer and a GentlemanNot only did some of the most memorable movies of the 80s meet the public, but this four month period in 1982 set the tone for what Hollywood proceeded to make for the remainder of the decade and beyond.For one, consider the talent introduced here, and what they would go on to accomplish beyond 1982. This summer represents major milestones in the careers of the three big action movie stars of the 80s: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and Mel Gibson. Conan introduced the world to Arnold the star, and so heralded the beginning of the muscle bound action hero era. Stallone was certainly a top star at this point, but his career had hit a valley after two disappointments, Victory and Nighthawks. Rocky 3 brought him back to his most beloved character; at least his most beloved until five months later when First Blood premiered in October, 1982. Gibson had been toiling in small Australian movies and television series since he premiered as Mad Max in 1979. But The Road Warrior announced him as a major Hollywood action movie star.But outside the action genre, the summer of 1982 also introduced us to Ron Howard the director (Night Shift), Sean Penn (Fast Times), a mature Robin Williams (Garp), Spielberg’s most successful creation (E.T.), and a largely ignored concert documentary, The Secret Policemen’s Other Ball, produced by two brothers of the name Weinstein. If the movies are really a reflection of us, then 1982 depicts the major cultural shifts that were occurring during the first two years of the 80s. The figure of a single, powerful male taking on the world with bullets and gun smoke was an image the newly elected President Regan tried to project – in part as an answer to the decidedly girly manish Jimmy Carter. The attempted assassinations of President Regan, as well as the Pope and Anwar Sadat, combined with a sluggish economy and the ever-present threat of the Russians, created an appetite for heros that Schwarzenegger and Stallone rode throughout the 80s. Mad Max gave the public a hero against the backdrop of the age’s great anxiety – the threat of nuclear war and the destruction of civilization to follow. Technology took great leaps in the early 80s with the introduction of IBM’s first personal computer, the first portable computer, the craze of video games, and on the space front, the launch of the first space shuttle. Tron was one of the first Hollywood pictures to capatilize on the public’s appetite for computers and video games. The androids in Blade Runner infiltrate a world threatened by a gluttony of technology, and the trusted family television becomes a child abductor in Poltergeist. In John Carpenter’s The Thing, the threat comes from space, but its an unseen threat that come inhabit anyone at any time. The combination of technology and paranoia is a thread that runs deeply through the summer of 1982. Of course, less ambiguous are what faces Captain Kirk in a sci-fi arms race with one Kahn, in the Star Trek sequel that proved once and for all blockbusters could be made from on TV shows (the first one was a commercial and critical disappointment).The American family was facing divorce ratings approaching 50 percent, and family turmoil becomes a major theme of the times. E.T. finds a young boy seeking to fix his broken family with the help of a visitor from another planet. Again in Poltergeist, supernatural forces to destroy the seemingly happy nucular family. And in Fast Times and Last American Virgin, parental influence all but disappears as teenagers make their own rules in the suburbs, a land conquered by children while mom and dad vacate to the city for their double paycheck jobs.
]]>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:07:00 GMTlbenschwartzlbenschwartz Blog6/5/2007 9:07:00 PMSummer movie seasons come and go, but there was something the summer of 1982 ranks amongst the greatest. What made 1982 so special? Well, while your standing in line, waiting for the third recycling Spiderman, Shrek, Pirates or Oceans, think about what you could have been going to your, most likely newly opened, suburban Cineplex. These were the movies of 1982:May 14: Conan the BarbarianMay 21: Road WarriorMay 28: Rocky 3June 4: Poltergeist and/or Star Trek: The Wrath of KhanJune 11: E.T.June 25: Blade Runner and/or The ThingJuly 9: TronJuly 23: The World According to GarpJuly 30: Last American Virgin and/or Night ShiftAugust 13: Fast Times at Ridgemont High and/or Officer and a GentlemanNot only did some of the most memorable movies of the 80s meet the public, but this four month period in 1982 set the tone for what Hollywood proceeded to make for the remainder of the decade and beyond.For one, consider the talent introduced here, and what they would go on to accomplish beyond 1982. This summer represents major milestones in the careers of the three big action movie stars of the 80s: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and Mel Gibson. Conan introduced the world to Arnold the star, and so heralded the beginning of the muscle bound action hero era. Stallone was certainly a top star at this point, but his career had hit a valley after two disappointments, Victory and Nighthawks. Rocky 3 brought him back to his most beloved character; at least his most beloved until five months later when First Blood premiered in October, 1982. Gibson had been toiling in small Australian movies and television series since he premiered as Mad Max in 1979. But The Road Warrior announced him as a major Hollywood action movie star.But outside the action genre, the summer of 1982 also introduced us to Ron Howard the director (Night Shift), Sean Penn (Fast Times), a mature Robin Williams (Garp), Spielberg&rsquo;s most successful creation (E.T.), and a largely ignored concert documentary, The Secret Policemen&rsquo;s Other Ball, produced by two brothers of the name Weinstein. If the movies are really a reflection of us, then 1982 depicts the major cultural shifts that were occurring during the first two years of the 80s. The figure of a single, powerful male taking on the world with bullets and gun smoke was an image the newly elected President Regan tried to project &ndash; in part as an answer to the decidedly girly manish Jimmy Carter. The attempted assassinations of President Regan, as well as the Pope and Anwar Sadat, combined with a sluggish economy and the ever-present threat of the Russians, created an appetite for heros that Schwarzenegger and Stallone rode throughout the 80s. Mad Max gave the public a hero against the backdrop of the age&rsquo;s great anxiety &ndash; the threat of nuclear war and the destruction of civilization to follow. Technology took great leaps in the early 80s with the introduction of IBM&rsquo;s first personal computer, the first portable computer, the craze of video games, and on the space front, the launch of the first space shuttle. Tron was one of the first Hollywood pictures to capatilize on the public&rsquo;s appetite for computers and video games. The androids in Blade Runner infiltrate a world threatened by a gluttony of technology, and the trusted family television becomes a child abductor in Poltergeist. In John Carpenter&rsquo;s The Thing, the threat comes from space, but its an unseen threat that come inhabit anyone at any time. The combination of technology and paranoia is a thread that runs deeply through the summer of 1982. Of course, less ambiguous are what faces Captain Kirk in a sci-fi arms race with one Kahn, in the Star Trek sequel that proved once and for all blockbusters could be made from on TV shows (the first one was a commercial and critical disappointment).The American family was facing divorce ratings approaching 50 percent, and family turmoil becomes a major theme of the times. E.T. finds a young boy seeking to fix his broken family with the help of a visitor from another planet. Again in Poltergeist, supernatural forces to destroy the seemingly happy nucular family. And in Fast Times and Last American Virgin, parental influence all but disappears as teenagers make their own rules in the suburbs, a land conquered by children while mom and dad vacate to the city for their double paycheck jobs. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/rape/MemberTagFilms.aspxrape
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