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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2007/8 will go down as a good vintage for American cinema, and last night the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences crowned a modern classic in the Coen brothers' No Country For Old Men: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor. As predicted, Paul Thomas Anderson's monumental There Will Be Blood was largely shut out of the awards losing in six of its eight categories. The principal exception was of course Daniel Day-Lewis's prize for Best Actor,... Read more
A change of pace from the usual high concept fare, Robert Benton's adaptation of a novel by Charles Baxter is a gentle philosophical comedy that will primarily appeal to older viewers' (older than the usual teenagers Hollywood caters to I mean). `It's true that we've seen Morgan Freeman playing sage counselor and friend rather often over the years. But you don't get typecast for nothing: if you were looking for advice, Morgan would seem like a good place to start. He's a great listener, he... Read more