When Robin Williams played T.S. Garp in The World According to Garp, two totally original American icons met: a leading comic actor of our time and the character whose loopy adventures made John Irving's novel a literary milestone and runaway bestseller. Fans of Williams' dramatic work in Dead Poets Society and his Oscar? winner Good Will Hunting will also savor his Garp, a sweet-natured writer whose life is a weird minefield of violence, adultery, fatherhood, rampant feminism and eerie coincidence. Glenn Close (her film debut) as Garp's formidable mother and John Lithgow as a transsexual ex-NFL receiver give impressive support, earning Oscar? nominations and critics laurels galore. Their collaboration is "one helluva magnificent movie" (Bernard Drew, Gannett Newspapers).
Synopsis: T.S. Garp grew up the fatherless child of a famous feminist. His life was always plagued by chaos and too much attention, and so as an adult he decides to lead what he hopes will be a quiet life, as a writer. But at the same time that he publishes his first book, his mother publishes a feminist manifesto and developes a huge, cult-like following that consists mostly of self-mutilating women. One of her followers is an ex-football player turned transsexual with whom Garp developes a close and lasting friendship. Based on the best-selling novel by John Irving.