Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Directed by Robert Benton
Ted 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.
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Cinematographer Nestor Almendros, a Cuban expatriate, had previously worked with Truffaut on "The Story of Adele H." and won an Oscar the year before for Malick's "Days of Heaven," does a good job making Manhattan come alive as part of the narrative and using tight shots to highlight the anxiety of his subjects.
Writer-director Robert Benton is as adept at pushing our buttons, in his own "tasteful" way, as Spielberg in "Jaws" (MAX Wednesday at 4:30 p.m.).
Another in a long list of those overrated Oscar winners for Best Picture is directed and written by Robert Benton ("Bad Company"/"Billy Bathgate"/"The Late Show").
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.
This is an important movie for Robert Benton, who co-wrote "Bonnie and Clyde" and also wrote and directed "Bad Company" and "The Late Show."
Cinematographer Nestor Almendros, a Cuban expatriate, had previously worked with Truffaut on "The Story of Adele H." and won an Oscar the year before for Malick's "Days of Heaven," does a good job making Manhattan come alive as part of the narrative and using tight shots to highlight the anxiety of his subjects.
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Another in a long list of those overrated Oscar winners for Best Picture is directed and written by Robert Benton ("Bad Company"/"Billy Bathgate"/"The Late Show").
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.
This is an important movie for Robert Benton, who co-wrote "Bonnie and Clyde" and also wrote and directed "Bad Company" and "The Late Show."