Movies

August, 1982

Very few movies get off to a better start than The World According to Garp (Warner). The brilliant title sequence plays peekaboo with a naked baby boy bouncing into the wild blue yonder of life itself. It would be hard to imagine a finer, funnier way to launch the hero of John Irving's absurdist novel (two prepublication excerpts appeared in Playboy's June 1976 and February 1977 issues), adapted by Steve Tesich and directed by George Roy Hill. The writer of Breaking Away and the director of The...