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Bookmark this pageKramer vs Kramer (1979)
Director: Robert Benton
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A high class modern weepie. While Hoffman and Streep come to terms with divorce and battle over who gets the brat, Benton forsakes the eccentric and original delights of his earlier films (Bad Company, The Late Show) and turns in a very solid and professional domestic melodrama, helped no end by some very fine naturalistic performances. As sensitive and as unremarkable as your average Truffaut film, and as ambivalent in its sexual politics.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Robert Benton
Producer: Stanley R Jaffe
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander, Justin Henry, Howard Duff, George Coe, JoBeth Williams full cast
Duration: 105 mins
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