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Kramer vs. Kramer
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Kramer vs. Kramer is a 1979 American drama film directed and written by Robert Benton. The cast includes Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry, and Jane Alexander. Stanley R. Jaffe produced the film, which was distributed by Columbia Pictures and Netflix. The narrative is set in New York City, and the film is associated with the New Hollywood movement.
The movie has a runtime of 105 minutes and was released on December 7, 1979. It earned a box office revenue of $106,260,000 against a budget of $8,000,000. Viewers have rated the film 7.8 on IMDb and 7.6 on TMDb.
Kramer vs. Kramer received Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress. It was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor. The film's tagline is "There are three sides to this love story."
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7.6Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.
Cast
- Dustin Hoffman as Ted Kramer
- Meryl Streep as Joanna Kramer
- Jane Alexander as Margaret Phelps
- Justin Henry as Billy Kramer
- Howard Duff as John Shaunessy
- George Coe as Jim O'Connor
Themes
- husband wife relationship
- marriage
- custody battle
- divorce
- family
- couple
- selfishness
- manhattan, new york city
- child custody
- abandonment
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- divorce
- Movement
- New Hollywood
- Director
- Robert Benton
- Screenwriter
- Robert Benton
- Production company
- Columbia Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Néstor Almendros
- Narrative location
- New York City
- Duration
- 100
- FilmAffinity ID
- 257947
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1979-12-19
- film editor
- Gerald B. Greenberg
- title
- Kramer vs. Kramer
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Picture
- production designer
- Paul Sylbert
- distributed by
- Netflix
- box office
- 106000000
- derivative work
- Akele Hum Akele Tum
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 7.8/10
- capital cost
- 8000000
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Encyclopedic overview
Kramer vs. Kramer is a 1979 American legal drama film written and directed by Robert Benton, based on Avery Corman's 1977 novel. The film stars Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry and Jane Alexander. It tells the story of a couple's divorce, its effect on their young son, and the subsequent evolution of their relationship and views on parenting. Kramer vs. Kramer explores the psychology and fallout of divorce, and touches on emerging and prevailing social issues such as gender roles, fathers' rights, work-life balance, and single parents.
Kramer vs. Kramer was theatrically released December 19, 1979, by Columbia Pictures. The film emerged as a major commercial success at the box office, grossing more than $173 million on an $8 million budget, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1979 in the United States and Canada. It received widespread critical acclaim upon release, with high praise for its direction, story, screenplay and performances of the cast, with major praise directed towards Hoffman and Streep's performances.
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