Remember, kids- That’s also the Trinity Killer. Lithgow is the Tim Curry of USA actors- if he can’t do it, it cannot be done. He never tried to parody anything to do with gender identity. He’s the best character in the film, the most logical, yet most free-thinking character.
Saw this movie back in 1983 as a 17 year old kid. What John Lithgow did in this movie made me an instant fan of him. The World According to Garp is among my favourite movies ever.
I was 16 and went into the theater expecting the comedic antics of Robin Williams. I walked out kinda feeling much the same way I did after watching Apocalypse Now: entertained, but with a weird feeling in the pit of my stomach.
@@FestinaLente-rn7jrI didn't know Williams, this made me ♥ him always. But after seeing the movie recently for the 1st time since seeing it in theatres, it doesn't hold up, we've moved on in our politics (but still have LONG way to go).
I love how Roberta is low-key rolling her eyes at the Ellen-Jamesean, and she had Garp's back at his mother's funeral. She was the voice of reason in this film.
Yeah although when I saw it it had a bit of an implication that people born female are inherently “more hysterical” and this person was less hysterical because they transitioned, which aligns with other jokes I’ve heard (like how the hot/crazy index doesn’t apply to trans women because having more in common with cis men makes them less crazy)
Loved Roberta , the book and the film but it's the most distinctive book I have read or movie I have seen. I laughed and cried. Everyone in it was wonderful and John Lithgow had guts to play that character 40 years ago!
I love this character and John Lithgow’s performance. While cisgender actors playing trans characters has been controversial in recent years, for the time this was groundbreaking. John didn’t treat Roberta as a mockery and instead portrayed her as an earnest and well-rounded character who aside from trans was just a normal person instead of a walking joke.
Williams never looked better than this. He was such a good actor and I always thought very, very handsome. Did anyone catch Kaiulani Lee as Barbara, the militant Ellen Jamesian? I love her chin and 20-past-8 mouth. This was one of her first movie roles.
When a movement supposed to be about equal rights and mutual respect goes overboard and reaches the point of absurdly it loses it's ability and perhaps it's right to be taken seriously. Today's super WOKE nonsense where EVERYONE is a "victim", I'm looking at you!
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 - You're a bit butt-hurt by a simple comment about an actor's role. Do you have repressed homosexual ideations? Do you fondle yourself while perusing the pages of Men's Health magazine? Do you secretly fantasize about the feel of a strong man's touches and caresses on your body in the wee dark hours of the lonely night?
It really is amazing how ahead of its time this movie/book is with respect to how they portray Roberta's character. Far beyond the baseline of just dignified as a trans character, but downright heroic.
Wade Winston Wilson AKA Deadpool Merc with the Mouth: Well done to both the late Robin McLaurin Williams AKA the original animated Genie and of course Mr John Arthur Lithgow playing as a transgender woman 100% Amazing top notch performance for both of them.
We are still so far behind when it comes to trans representation, but even 40 years ago this movie gave us no room to laugh at Roberta, it treated her as a full human being. Not a man in drag, not someone deceiving people, just a person like anybody else. It is absolutely a problem that trans characters are played by cis actors far more often than trans actors, but this is far and away the best example of the former on film to this day.
In my friendship with Miss Alecia Brevard it was the only time she dared attract more attention and possibly be outed but she "claimed" to me in an email that she auditioned for the role. She passed TOO WELL as a woman though. She considered the role for whatever reason. The truth was she would NOT have passed as a man, even if she was born as Buddy. She was a bunny at the Bunny Hutch so the script would have needed to be re-written to make it more believable. No viewer would ever buy Alecia had been a "tight end" on a football team. The world needed shock even back then. Bruce Jenner would be more believable...not Alecia. I don't know which story is more incredible? That the real McCoy was too unbelievable or a Bruce Jenner history? She got rid of testosterone when she was very young by performing her own castration on her kitchen table. She never had to "weather" years of testosterone and what it does to the features. She was serious about not wanting it though. Her doctor was the original Dr. Harry Benjamen whom every old transexual knows as "setting the standards." RIP Robin and Alecia.
Not unusual in Hollywood. In the movie Boyz in the hood..while in character. Lawrence Fishburne played Cuba Gooding Jr's father. Fishburne is 57 years old and Gooding is 51.
@@DS-wk1kn Glad you realize that.🙄 My point was there was a man who played another man's father(Fishburne) who was just 6 years older than the man who played the son.(Gooding)
Jessie Royce Landis & Cary Grant in North By Northwest, Myrna Loy & Theresa Wright in The Best Years of Our Lives. They're not documentaries, Lithgow not trans.
This movie was way ahead of it's time. It perfectly portrays the SJW's of the world we now live in and dictated by. But don't worry folks, Donald Trump is doing his best to fix it.
Hearing about the differences between the book and movie I find the ending more shocking, Poo killed Garp as she blamed him for his sisters death in childbirth even though her sister was a tramp long before she slept with Garp she should of blamed her father as he was a domestic abuser, and Poo was a Ellen Jamesian. I always did wonder her motives I just assumed she was a nasty piece of work as she set out to ruin Garps relationship with his future wife early on.
Remember, kids- That’s also the Trinity Killer.
Lithgow is the Tim Curry of USA actors- if he can’t do it, it cannot be done. He never tried to parody anything to do with gender identity. He’s the best character in the film, the most logical, yet most free-thinking character.
I agree a thousand percent! A real treasure. So is Robin though! Love them both!
Saw this movie back in 1983 as a 17 year old kid. What John Lithgow did in this movie made me an instant fan of him. The World According to Garp is among my favourite movies ever.
I like him in all his movies
@@jediknight73 He is undoubtful a great great actor. You can not not like him. Even in Footloose he was fantastic.
I was 16 and went into the theater expecting the comedic antics of Robin Williams. I walked out kinda feeling much the same way I did after watching Apocalypse Now: entertained, but with a weird feeling in the pit of my stomach.
@@FestinaLente-rn7jrI didn't know Williams, this made me ♥ him always. But after seeing the movie recently for the 1st time since seeing it in theatres, it doesn't hold up, we've moved on in our politics (but still have LONG way to go).
@@jediknight73 it's a good movie 😅
I love how Roberta is low-key rolling her eyes at the Ellen-Jamesean, and she had Garp's back at his mother's funeral. She was the voice of reason in this film.
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Yeah although when I saw it it had a bit of an implication that people born female are inherently “more hysterical” and this person was less hysterical because they transitioned, which aligns with other jokes I’ve heard (like how the hot/crazy index doesn’t apply to trans women because having more in common with cis men makes them less crazy)
I used this same picture as my profile image for a long time.... I love and raise ducks
She was! She is played absolutely perfect by John Lithgow. 😊
Threw a mean block, too.
The nostalgic feeling that this movie gave me is Overwhelming I miss this era.
Genie and Lord Farquaad having a little heart to heart
From the age of 12 to 15 I probably watched this movie 30 times. An all time favorite. Funny, smart, heartwarming and dark all at the same time.
Loved Roberta , the book and the film but it's the most distinctive book I have read or movie I have seen. I laughed and cried. Everyone in it was wonderful and John Lithgow had guts to play that character 40 years ago!
I love this character and John Lithgow’s performance. While cisgender actors playing trans characters has been controversial in recent years, for the time this was groundbreaking. John didn’t treat Roberta as a mockery and instead portrayed her as an earnest and well-rounded character who aside from trans was just a normal person instead of a walking joke.
*sigh*
It’s just a movie lady, sir.. whatever you are!
Great acting
'Cis gender'😂😂😂😂😂
All they did was complement the actor's preformance y'all can stop being childish.
OH SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Williams never looked better than this. He was such a good actor and I always thought very, very handsome.
Did anyone catch Kaiulani Lee as Barbara, the militant Ellen Jamesian? I love her chin and 20-past-8 mouth. This was one of her first movie roles.
Robin Williams never aged in his 30s throughout the 80s and 90s. Looks so young like he’s in his 20s
Aw, now I wished appeared on 3rd Rock. There would've been a dry seat in the live audience
What are you talking about robin Williams looked 40 at 25 lol. He always looked older
I saw this movie as a little boy, and I never fully understood what a wry yet devastating critique of radical feminism it is.
The book is even better
wat
@@entewente self mutilation and fabrication of victimhood sets movements back.
@@michaelroberts3004 you seem quite upset about the people you made up in your own head.
When a movement supposed to be about equal rights and mutual respect goes overboard and reaches the point of absurdly it loses it's ability and perhaps it's right to be taken seriously. Today's super WOKE nonsense where EVERYONE is a "victim", I'm looking at you!
I loved John Lithgow in this role
yikes
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 - You're a bit butt-hurt by a simple comment about an actor's role. Do you have repressed homosexual ideations? Do you fondle yourself while perusing the pages of Men's Health magazine? Do you secretly fantasize about the feel of a strong man's touches and caresses on your body in the wee dark hours of the lonely night?
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 Maybe its because people like you act like such contemptuous trash to them that the suicide rates don't lessen.
Cry about it
Happy 75th Birthday John Lithgow
This movie is way ahead of it´s time!
Twee Pixie yup, but in all the wrong ways
I was talking about this the other night. John Irving was right about everything.
It gives me so much comfort, such a smart slice of empathy and a great window into story telling
The book on which it based is fantastic, too.
Actually the book was ahead of its time. The movie came out later.
It really is amazing how ahead of its time this movie/book is with respect to how they portray Roberta's character. Far beyond the baseline of just dignified as a trans character, but downright heroic.
Glenn Close's best performance, imho.
A movie 40yrs ahead of it’s time!
Well, no, today it's not the feminists committing violence.
Love John Lithgow in this . And I watched it like 12 times and I was just 9 years old
"I had a great pair of hands" lol classic...
the look/nod after that line had me in stitches.
Way ahead of its time in a way...stirs up different emotions...good work does that
"All I do is just touch her"... not recommended to use after "me too movement "😂
Loved Roberta Muldoon!! She's my favorite character from the book 😍
Lord Farquaad looks fabulous
He’s a little taller in this flick
1:56 who knew robin williams would predict modern feminism
Shut upppp please
Is Roberta Muldoon the long lost sister of Robert Muldoon from Jurassic park? 🤔
Post-op, she's had work done.
Wade Winston Wilson AKA Deadpool Merc with the Mouth: Well done to both the late Robin McLaurin Williams AKA the original animated Genie and of course Mr John Arthur Lithgow playing as a transgender woman 100% Amazing top notch performance for both of them.
I had a great pair of hands lol one of the best movie lines ever!!
I love the books of John Irving and this movie is as good
as the book!
John Litgow as Roberta Muldoon is perfect!
This is my favorite Robin Williams movie
Two of the best!
my favorite Robin Williams movie!
@@annahale1187 - Yeah, you're probably the type to be content watching fodder such as "Blue's Clues" and "Thomas the Tank Engine".
Good morning Vietnam was his best. This movie creeped me out.
@@gmoney5300 good movies make you feel things
Interesting people compare this fiction to 2 war movies.
I don't care what people say, But John Lithgow made one beautiful woman in this movie.
CONVINCING woman. He plays it completely straight, so you forget it’s a 6’4” balding man who played the Trinity Killer.
God damn it, this book was incredibly perceptive.
Glen Close had a cameo in Hook! Also, the Lithgow's Robert to Roberta similarly foreshadows the Kaitlyn Jenner transgender tranformation
The boo box!
Buckle up, buckaroo
Garp trumps Gump by a margin thinner than a Benjamin Button or a Kaiserblade .
I've never heard of this. I wanna watch
It's a great movie...dark in a sense but great acting
Vond dit een uitstekende film en ik denk nu nog.
I love Roberta
Brilliant movie, top to bottom.
+Nautilus1972 Agreed. I had forgotten how good this movie is.
Enjoyed it more in theatres, it was truly groundbreaking then.
I always loved this movie and it's so prescient of the modern Left. This is the first movie that made me cry.
1:08 - "...good idea."
(Prescient, Mr. Irving, prescient.)
...number 90 did have a great pair of hands though.
There have been MANY trans roles in movies over the years, but John Lithgow did it the BEST.
Willem Dafoe in Boondock Saints was Oscar worthy.
Robin Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire is better than Lithgow in a dress.
@@TheSpeakenglish neither of those were transgender roles
@@ChristianDeHadleigh lithgow played a transwoman
This movie treated the character best, just a member of the family.
OMG from now on I'm taking A Vow of Frowns ☹
Remember seeing this when it came out and thought the idea of a famous professional athlete becoming a trans woman was so unrealistic.
We are still so far behind when it comes to trans representation, but even 40 years ago this movie gave us no room to laugh at Roberta, it treated her as a full human being. Not a man in drag, not someone deceiving people, just a person like anybody else. It is absolutely a problem that trans characters are played by cis actors far more often than trans actors, but this is far and away the best example of the former on film to this day.
@A N B B we as a culture
By definition an actor is pretending to be something they are not. So it shouldn’t matter who plays what so long as it’s done respectfully.
3rd Spirited portrayed in Little Big Man in 1970.
@@GasCityGuyWomen weren't allowed to play Shakespeare's female roles to begin with.
Trinity lol
This is a very good movie
Great scene.
I remember reading the book and thinking to myself......what if this lunacy would really take hold of society, I guess I got my answer.
This lunacy is nature & biology, 1 in 2,000 human births gender non-specific.
Hades and the Genie
Aren't Glenn Close and Robin Williams about the same age?
Gilbert Martinez 4 years apart. Mary Beth Hurt, who played Williams' wife is only a year younger than Close.
Actually, Hurt is 5 1/2 months OLDER than Close.
Glenn Close is 8 years older than Robin
Glenn was born in 1947 and Robin in 1951. 4 years apart.
My favourite scene is the car accident scene.
@The Great SteveO it sure is.
It's the scene my Mother quoted me from the novel.
we owe them so much
Roberta Muldoon: a trans identified male with a sense of humour that can deadname themselves. That would be rare these days.
Fishers Island NY
Never heard of this movie till.now
How about the book? It's fantastic.
Lithogow looking kinda hot
Best he’s ever looked!
tight ends aren't allowed to wear #90 in the nfl.
This movie is too politically incorrect to be made in today's environment.
This is the inevitable end game that will result.
Huh?
Fantastic house. With a sea view. ❤
bruce/kaitlyn jenner anyone?
Is this same area as Dan In Real Life?
In my friendship with Miss Alecia Brevard it was the only time she dared attract more attention and possibly be outed but she "claimed" to me in an email that she auditioned for the role. She passed TOO WELL as a woman though. She considered the role for whatever reason. The truth was she would NOT have passed as a man, even if she was born as Buddy. She was a bunny at the Bunny Hutch so the script would have needed to be re-written to make it more believable. No viewer would ever buy Alecia had been a "tight end" on a football team. The world needed shock even back then. Bruce Jenner would be more believable...not Alecia. I don't know which story is more incredible? That the real McCoy was too unbelievable or a Bruce Jenner history?
She got rid of testosterone when she was very young by performing her own castration on her kitchen table. She never had to "weather" years of testosterone and what it does to the features. She was serious about not wanting it though. Her doctor was the original Dr. Harry Benjamen whom every old transexual knows as "setting the standards." RIP Robin and Alecia.
Thank you for sharing a piece of transsexual history with which I was unfamiliar!
Wait a minute, how old is Glenn Close? and how old was Robin Williams? And she's playing his mother?
Not unusual in Hollywood. In the movie Boyz in the hood..while in character. Lawrence Fishburne played Cuba Gooding Jr's father. Fishburne is 57 years old and Gooding is 51.
@@rabbitskipper4454 - They weren't 57 and 51 then.
@@DS-wk1kn Glad you realize that.🙄 My point was there was a man who played another man's father(Fishburne) who was just 6 years older than the man who played the son.(Gooding)
Jessie Royce Landis & Cary Grant in North By Northwest, Myrna Loy & Theresa Wright in The Best Years of Our Lives. They're not documentaries, Lithgow not trans.
At that time Robin was 31 and Glenn was 35
So this is the film that kicked off the MGTOW movement.
Lets fly!
The tongues can be replaced with the left over tissues from the man's bottom surgery.
is that caityln jenner lol
This movie always made me 🤔
Dicky Jo!!
This movie was absolute garbage. John Lithgow and Glenn Close saved what was humanly possible. The direction and screenplay was horrid.
Bruce Jenner watched this religiously
This movie was way ahead of it's time.
It perfectly portrays the SJW's of the world we now live in and dictated by.
But don't worry folks, Donald Trump is doing his best to fix it.
Al Bundy he’s amazing, it’s the kind of role that could kill a career but he nailed it.
@@mygoogleemail2063 - I'm not sure you understood Al Bundy's (very ignorant) comment.
Hearing about the differences between the book and movie I find the ending more shocking, Poo killed Garp as she blamed him for his sisters death in childbirth even though her sister was a tramp long before she slept with Garp she should of blamed her father as he was a domestic abuser, and Poo was a Ellen Jamesian. I always did wonder her motives I just assumed she was a nasty piece of work as she set out to ruin Garps relationship with his future wife early on.
Robin is handsome.