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The World According to Garp (1982)

The World According to Garp (1982)

R 136 minutes EN Drama , Comedy
Robin Williams is Garp. He's got a funny way of looking at 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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