A superb tragi-comedy based on the book by John Irving. Garp, the product of an extraordinary sexual liason between his liberated mother and a dying comatose soldier, is a family man who sees himself as a "serious" writer, but his mother writes a feminist manifesto, at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed women. A truly bizarre comedy that always carries the threat of tragedy in the background, when do you stop laughing and start to recoil in horror? find out more...

Burton and Taylor in a screen version of the kind of love-hate relationship which they were famous for in private, a kind of on-screen therapy. Taylor gives what is probably her finest performance as the blowsy harridan Martha, while Burton is not quite so hammy as usual as her angst-ridden college professor husband. The verbal fireworks that occur when they invite a young couple to dinner are surprisingly convincing. A must see classic. find out more...