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.
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Studio
Pan Arts
Language
en
Status
Released
How The World According to Garp performed
Budget
$17.0M
Worldwide Gross
$29.7M
Gross Profit
$12.7M
Return
1.7× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$4M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
T.S. Garp
Robin Williams
T.S. Garp
Helen Holm
Mary Beth Hurt
Helen Holm
Jenny Fields
Glenn Close
Jenny Fields
Roberta Muldoon
John Lithgow
Roberta Muldoon
Mr. Fields
Hume Cronyn
Mr. Fields
Mrs. Fields
Jessica Tandy
Mrs. Fields
The Hooker
Swoosie Kurtz
The Hooker
Pooh
Brenda Currin
Pooh
John Wolfe
Peter Michael Goetz
John Wolfe
Cushie
Jenny Wright
Cushie
Referee
John Irving
Referee
Ellen James
Amanda Plummer
Ellen James
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