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The World According to Garp

Robin Williams is Garp. He's got a funny way of looking at life.

Rating 6.7 / 10Release July 23, 1982Runtime 136 min

A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.

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