

The World According to Garp
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $17M
- Box office
- $29.7M
- Language
- English
- based on novel or book
- pregnancy
- wrestling
- wrestler
- childlessness
- paternity
- love
- writer
- typewriter
- reflective
- gay theme
- homosexuality
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereLos Angeles, California14 Jul 1982
- TheatricalR23 Jul 1982
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1 Mar 1983
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical23 Dec 1982
CanadaCA
- Theatrical23 Jul 1982
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical3 Feb 1983
BrazilBR
- Theatrical6 Sept 1982
ColombiaCO
- Theatrical10 May 1984
CzechiaCZ
- Physical9 May 1995
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical28 Jan 1983
FinlandFI
- Theatrical25 Feb 1983
FranceFR
- Theatrical13 Apr 1983
- TVFestival16 Dec 2004
- TVArte4 Sept 2013
GermanyDE
- Theatrical16West Germany6 Aug 1987
- TVZDF27 Dec 1989
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The World According to Garp was released on 23 July 1982.
Audience reviews
1- B8/10
badelf
6/15/2026
My Robin Williams Retrospective: The World According to Garp (1982) Robin Williams surprises here with a character so unlike what we typically associate with him. T.S. Garp is lower energy, even-tempered, thoughtful; there's no manic improvisation, no volcanic bursts of comic energy. Instead, Williams plays restraint, playing a man navigating the absurdities and tragedies of his peculiar life with quiet determinat…
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