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Robert Benton's Oscar-winning adaptation of Avery Corman's bestseller takes on contemporary problems of divorce and shifting gender roles, as a jilted husband learns how to be a nurturing father. Manhattan housewife Joanna Kramer (Meryl Streep) walks out on her workaholic ad man husband Ted (Dustin Hoffman), leaving their young .. Read more

Starring	Dustin Hoffman, Justin Henry, Meryl Streep, Howard Duff
Director	Robert Benton
Genres	Drama

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Overlooked by Oscar
- 09 Feb 2011
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences is not infallible. Sometimes the wrong films win: Citizen Kane lost to How Green Was My Valley. Apocalypse Now lost to Kramer vs Kramer. Raging Bull lost to Ordinary People. Goodfellas lost to Dances with Wolves. Pulp Fiction lost to Forrest Gump. And Brokeback Mountain lost to Crash. But at least all those losers were nominated. How much worse to be overlooked entirely! I’ll give you an example: in 1958, the Academy ignored Alfred Hitchcock&# Read more
The Oscars 2008
- 25 Feb 2008
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
Feast of Love
- 02 Oct 2007
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

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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 responsibilities. Just as he starts to find his feet, Joanna returns, intent on fighting for custody of ...

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  Robert Benton's Oscar-winning adaptation of Avery Corman's bestseller takes on contemporary problems of divorce and shifting gender roles, as a jilted husband learns how to be a nurturing father. Manhattan housewife Joanna Kramer (Meryl Streep) walks out on her workaholic ad man husband Ted (Dustin ...