The World According to Garp (1982)
Directed by George Roy Hill
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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Actually, he kind of resembles an older version of his character in "The World According to Garp." Williams does do a good job of projecting Walter's main theme - that he doesn't believe he's evil and he doesn't care about his actions.
Although hard to pigeonhole, the picture unavoidably recalls the idiot-savant classic “Being There,” and significantly resembles “The World According to Garp” in tone.
Mixing elements of "Rain Man," "The World According to Garp" and Woody Allen's "Zelig," "Forrest Gump" covers 30 years in Gump's life, and reframes recent history by suggesting that one man can leave his stamp -- through blunders, serendipity and simple good will -- on several key historical moments.
That's the cinematic formula for "Forrest Gump," which combines the most interesting elements of "The World According to Garp," Woody Allen's "Zelig" and "Being There."
His direction is inspired, and he had the good idea of crafting the film into a series of mostly short scenes which really give you an overall view of T.S. Garp's unlikely life, somehow like in "Forrest Gump".
Every face in this movie is surreally long, and Hana is the toughest but most steadfastly unglamorous transvestite since John Lithgow in "The World According to Garp."
Meanwhile, Wanda Sykes and Joan Cusack play friendly faces with special forces training, although Cusack’s character—borrowing a page from the Ellen James Society in The World According to Garp—has cut out her own tongue and therefore doesn’t speak (she does parkour instead, or rather, her stunt double does).