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Kramer Vs. Kramer (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 28, 2001
- Originally Released: 1979
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Dustin Hoffman, Justin Henry & Meryl Streep | |
Performer: | Jane Alexander, Howard Duff, George Coe, JoBeth Williams & Bill Moor | |
Directed by | Robert Benton | |
Edited by | Jerry Greenberg | |
Screenwriting by | Robert Benton | |
Composition by | Henry Purcell & Antonio Vivaldi | |
Cinematography by | Néstor Almendros | |
Produced by | Stanley R. Jaffe |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1979 -
Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman
Academy Awards 1979 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Robert Benton
Academy Awards 1979 -
Best Director: Robert Benton
Academy Awards 1979 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1979 -
Best Supporting Actress: Meryl Streep
Entertainment Reviews:
...Dustin Hoffman is perfectly cast...
Sight and Sound
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.
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Sojourner
Kramer Vs. Kramer is a perceptive, touching, intelligent film about one of the raw sores of contemporary America, the dissolution of the family unit.
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Variety
Rating: 5/5 --
Sensitive, truthful look at the breakup of a family.
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Common Sense Media
Like a few other recent movies, it takes a serious look at problems faced in real people in real life -- family conflicts, personality problems, childrearing dilemmas.
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Christian Science Monitor
Rating: 4/5 --
What could so easily have become something false and tacky is handled with truth and restraint.
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Radio Times
...Fine, witty, moving, most intelligent....Hoffman is splendid...
New York Times
Product Description:
Robert Benton's moving and well-observed adaptation of Avery Corman's novel about the aftermath of divorce stars Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep as the separating couple, Ted and Joanna Kramer. When dutiful wife and mother Joanna decides to leave Ted, an advertising executive, she also leaves him with the responsibility of caring for their young son, Billy (Justin Henry). The situation proves to be especially difficult since the workaholic father has never really taken care of the boy and, in truth, barely knows him. Things are rough at first, but as the two become accustomed to life without Joanna and Ted's caretaking skills improve, father and son finally develop a relationship. As Ted devotes more time to his son and less to his work, however, the latter suffers, and Ted's subsequent firing coincides with the return of Joanna, who wants her son back.
Despite the titular framing of a custody trial, KRAMER VS. KRAMER steps lightly around the complex issue, essentially concerning itself with the father's discovery of the joys and travails of being a parent. Hoffman and Streep turn in exceptional Academy Award-winning performances, and Benton crafts a memorable exploration of parenthood by wisely focusing on the tiny dramas of everyday life--such as the classic, heartbreaking scene in which Ted, on his first morning as a single father, tries (and miserably fails) to make french toast for his son--to capture the essence of a precious relationship.
Despite the titular framing of a custody trial, KRAMER VS. KRAMER steps lightly around the complex issue, essentially concerning itself with the father's discovery of the joys and travails of being a parent. Hoffman and Streep turn in exceptional Academy Award-winning performances, and Benton crafts a memorable exploration of parenthood by wisely focusing on the tiny dramas of everyday life--such as the classic, heartbreaking scene in which Ted, on his first morning as a single father, tries (and miserably fails) to make french toast for his son--to capture the essence of a precious relationship.
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- Sales Rank: 30,844
- UPC: 043396048584
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