I have so many memories from my childhood of my mother
watching The World According to Garp
that I think there must have been a stretch of time when it was on TV nearly
every day. I thought it a bizarre movie then and I find it a bizarre movie now.
George Roy Hill directed this adaptation of John Irving’s novel, which I’ve
never read. But I won’t let that prevent me from speculating on something I’d
be willing to bet the book does that the movie fails to.
