Moscow on the Hudson
1984
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Academy Award Actress in a Supporting Role 1983 · Nominated
Academy Award Actor in a Supporting Role 1983 · Nominated
Glenn Close. 1982 Winner NBR Award. Top Ten Films. National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA. 1983 Nominee NSFC Award. Best Supporting Actress. Glenn Close. 1983 Nominee NSFC Award. Best Supporting Actor. John Lithgow. New York Film Critics Circle Awards.
Written by Steve Tesich, it is based on the 1978 novel of the same title by John Irving. For their roles, John Lithgow and Glenn Close (in her cinematic debut) were respectively nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the 55th Academy Awards .
The World According to Garp is John Irving 's fourth novel, about a man born out of wedlock to a feminist leader who grows up to be a writer. Published in 1978, the book was a bestseller for several years. It was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction in 1979, [1] and its first paperback edition won the award the following year.
- John Irving
- 1978
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The World According to Garp: Directed by George Roy Hill. With Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close, John Lithgow. 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.
- Redherring
- 2 min
- George Roy Hill
Roger Ebert January 01, 1982. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. John Irving's best-selling novel, The World According to Garp, was cruel, annoying, and smug. I kept wanting to give it to my cats. But it was wonderfully well-written and was probably intended to inspire some of those negative reactions in the reader.
A nurse during World War II, Jenny Fields (Glenn Close) conceives with a dying pilot and bears a boy named T.S. Garp (Robin Williams) whom she raises alone.
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- Comedy, Drama
- R
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. Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T S Garp, and his mother, Jenny.
