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Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
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Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Actor, and Screenplay, Kramer vs. Kramer remains as powerfully moving today as it was when released in 1979, simply because its drama will remain relevant for couples of any generation. Adapted by director Robert Benton from the novel by Avery Corman, this is perhaps the finest, most evenly balanced film ever made about the failure of marriage and the tumultuous shift of parental roles. It begins when Joanna Kramer (Meryl Streep) bluntly informs her husband Ted (Dustin Hoffman) that she's leaving him, just as his advertising career is advancing and demanding most of his waking...
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Kramer vs. Kramer Movie Review by Rodney  (7/8/2006) |
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Never before has a film, with such depth, grasped the effects of divorce and single-parenthood that Robert Benton delivers with Kramer vs. Kramer.
When Ted (Dustin Hoffman), an overworked advertiser, comes home from another late night at work, his wife, Joanna (Meryl Streep), walks out on both him and her 7 year-old son....
(complete Kramer vs. Kramer review by Rodney)
Though we have certainly seen films about divorce and how that divorce affects the children, the parents, but never before have we really gotten inside the relationship between a son and a father that have been abandoned.
We have a stereotype in the Western world that it is always the father who leaves a family, but in...
(complete Kramer vs. Kramer review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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