David Denby

“….the sex-hating nurse, Jenny Fields (Glenn Close)—a limited, eccentric, but powerfully benevolent woman….”

“Theater actress Glenn Close, an imposing woman with an aristocratic nose and a sudden, surprsisingly generous smile, does much better with Jenny [than Williams does with Garp]. As written, Jenny is halfway between a joke and a saint; we don’t know how to take her, but at least Close makes her strong—she has the imperviousness, the distant benevolence to carry off this role of a woman who is sympathetic to bizarre human disasters but disgusted by normal human appetite….”

David Denby
New York, August 2, 1982