Review of The World According to Garp

************SPOILERS AHEAD**************** "The World According to Garp", one of the first movies I ever saw Robin Williams playing a dramatic role in, is on the list of my top five favorite movies of all time - it grabs you and wraps you in from the beginning credits of "When I'm 64" to the closing scene of Garp's death in a helicopter. Robin Williams plays T.S. Garp, the son of a feminist nurse (Glenn Close) and a ball turret gunner named Garp. In the words of Jenny's father, played by Hume Cronyn, "Is that the bastard's first name or last name?" Just Garp. Anyway, Garp grows up in a boy's school where his mother, Jenny, is the nurse. He wants to wrestle, she insists of basketball. Garp wins and later falls in love with the daughter of the wrestling coach, with whom he has three children. Tragedy strikes Garp and Helen when their son Walt is impaled by an uncovered gear shift in Helen's VW Bug. Their little family, then consisting of Garp, Helen, and older son Duncan, visit Jenny at Dog's Head Harbor for some much needed R&R. To say much more would be to completely ruin this wonderful film, so that's where I'll end. "The World According to Garp" is a stupendous, wonderful movie. Enjoy.