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During the subsequent court battle, Michael takes a job far beneath his talents to prove that he's a worthy parent.
There is so seldom even one great performance in a movie that three is too much to expect.
Another one of the decade's true highlights.
Career man Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman) is so caught up with work that his wife Joanna (Meryl Streep) feels exhausted and unappreciated. She makes the decision to leave him but also decided to leave him with their six-year old son Billy (Justin Henry).
Benton also sagaciously removed a secondary romance between Michael Kramer and his platonic lady friend Margaret Phelps (Jane Alexander).
Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. February 21, 2015 Kramer vs. Kramer makes the mistake of making it all cute, of turning parent and child interaction into the stuff that normally goes on television commercials to sell pre-sweetened corn flakes.
Divorces were spiked, the picturesque familial views of the 50s shattered.
Sensitive, truthful look at the breakup of a family. Netflix uses cookies for personalization, to customize its online advertisements, and for other purposes. Kramer vs Kramer is a lopsided, sudsy movie that coasts through on its father-appeal, its star-power and its easy-paced comedy and pathos, seldom firing our brains and hearts into a fresh response. August 14, 2019 |
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Drama ), Best Screenplay and Best Director. Though he is obviously insensitive to everyone's feelings but his own, Michael has not lost his wife because of this; she simply wants to go out and "find herself".
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The score is often, well, oddly enough, rather perky when it is, in fact played with, and when it's not, it's tender enough to use resonance to make up for liveliness, but this is a mostly subdued and naturalist affair, with plenty of dialogue and other stuff going on to keep entertainment value adequate, but still leaving plenty of room for bland, almost dull dry spells in direction, as one can imagine, considering the fat around the edges of the storytelling. Well, I don't suppose this story concept is lacking in depth, because it's a very thematically weighty drama, it's just that the story is so minimalist, and the longer it takes to unravel, and the less time it dedicates to really fleshing itself out, the natural shortcomings are brought further and further to light, challenging one's investment. The 1970's has always been a decade of film that I've never withheld my appreciation for.
Joanna Kramer (Meryl Streep) walks out on her advertising-art-director husband Michael (Dustin Hoffman). Watch trailers & learn more. February 11, 2014 Marvel Co-Stars and Hollywood Pay Tribute to Chadwick Boseman As well as the 70's being a strong decade, much admiration has also went to films in terms of Oscar sweeps. | Jeez, it sounds like the '70s was my kind of era, because I much prefer brutal realism over colorful musicals and what have you, although those three-hour-long fluff pieces were a little more lively than a three-hour-long, slow-burn drama about people playing Russian roulette and dealing with 'Nam. We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future.Regal