The World According to Garp
Robin Williams is Garp. He's got a funny way of looking at life.
DramaComedybased on novel or bookpregnancywrestlingwrestlerchildlessnesspaternitylovewritertypewriterreflectivegay themehomosexuality
A darkly comic, character-driven exploration of a writer's struggle to find meaning amid family chaos, infidelity, and the collision between personal ambition and domestic life.
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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