![]() ![]() Jenny's first book, a feminist manifesto, is a huge success and catapults her into the limelight as an icon for the movement. Garp and his mother move to New York and both embark on writing careers. In college, Garp (Robin Williams) falls in love with Helen Holm (Mary Beth Hurt), the daughter of his wrestling coach. Garp, and he grows up longing for the father he never knew. Jenny gives her newborn boy the name T.S. The father, a badly wounded tailgunner known only as Technical Sergeant Garp, died soon after Jenny, wanting a child but no entanglement with a man, used him as a sperm source. The movie is episodic and at times rudderless, but the central performances and an endearing quirkiness help to maintain good engagement.ĭuring World War Two, nurse Jenny Fields (Glenn Close), a fiercely independent budding feminist, shocks her parents (Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy) by announcing that she is intentionally and happily pregnant out of wedlock. ![]() An adaptation of the John Irving best-selling novel, The World According To Garp is the story of a cute bastard who grows up in a world rocked by feminism. ![]()
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