The World According to Garp. More specifically, the scene where we first meet Robin Williams as the grown-up hero. Mary Beth Hurt is sitting on the grandstand of the college athletic field, studying. In front of the grandstand is the running track. Robin Williams appears on the right-hand side of the frame, runs to the left out of the frame. Pause. Now he reappears, running backward. Then he leaves the track and begins running up and down the bleachers, right next to where she’s studying, and he says something like I hope I’m not bothering you, and she says something like no, not at all, and
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