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The World According to Garp
Comedy, Drama
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy emotionally layered family dramas balancing eccentric humor, sexual politics, and painful reflections on love, parenthood, and impermanence.
- Tone
- bittersweet, melancholic, satirical
- Payoff
- reflection, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- family, sexuality, feminism, mortality, artistic identity
- Setting
- late twentieth century, affluent New England homes and literary circles
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