The World According to Garp(1982)
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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T.S. Garp
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Jenny Fields
Roberta Muldoon
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Mrs. Fields
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John Wolfe
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