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Kramer vs Kramer
1979
Returning home late from work one night, a career-obsessed Ted Kramer is told by his wife, Joanna, that she is leaving him. After a lifetime of being somebody's wife, she's going off to find herself, leaving Ted to care for their six-year-old son. Ted, while trying to hold down his job, gets to really know his son as few .. Read more
| Starring | Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry, Howard Duff |
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| Director | Robert Benton |
| Genres | Drama |
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Kramer vs Kramer
Returning home late from work one night, a career-obsessed Ted Kramer is told by his wife, Joanna, that she is leaving him. After a lifetime of being somebody's wife, she's going off to find herself, leaving Ted to care for their six-year-old son. Ted, while trying to hold down his job, gets to really know his son as few fathers do: cooking his meals, taking him to the park, understanding every need and fear. For the first time in his life he feels like a fulfilled parent. But then Joanna returns--and she wants her son back.
| Starring | Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry, Howard Duff, Jane Alexander |
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| Director | Robert Benton |
| Studio | UCA |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 40 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 40 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Subtitles | Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 10 Apr 2004 Blu-ray: 02 Feb 2009 Production year: 1979 |
| Format | DVD |
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Winner of the Oscar for best picture and scooping best actor and supporting actress statuettes for Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep, this runaway success now looks a little overwrought in places, but it is still an involving, moving and discerning study of the suffering endured by all embroiled in a divorce. You could cut the tension in the courtroom sequences with a knife, but writer/director Robert Benton deserves greatest credit for the truth and restraint of the scenes in which Hoffman tries to win over his six-year-old son, Justin Henry, which could so easily have become false and tacky.
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A high class modern weepie. While Hoffman and Streep come to terms with divorce and battle over who gets the brat,... read more on Time Out
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15 out of 15 people found this review helpful
moving tale
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Why don't we make films like this anymore!
An amazing film, which is streaks ahead of anything that we are making at the present. As Meryl Streep said in the extras, this is a film that wouldn't get done now as it is a detailed account of the human condition. I have seen this film about 7 times and it constantly engages and moves me. As an acting lesson it is incredible and never allows itself to fall into melodramatic cliche by drawing neat conclusions.
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Joanna Kramer, a Manhattan housewife, can no longer face life with her husband Ted. She walks out leaving her son Billy in Ted's charge. Ted has to adjust his life and face up to his new found ... -
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Kramer vs Kramer
Returning home late from work one night, a career-obsessed Ted Kramer is told by his wife, Joanna, that she is leaving him. After a lifetime of being somebody's wife, she's going off to find herself, leaving Ted to care for their six-year-old son. Ted, while trying to hold down his job, gets to ...
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