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Kramer vs. Kramer [Region 2]
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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 4030521100381
Format: PAL
Languages: German (Original Language), MonoEnglish (Original Language), MonoSpanish (Original Language), MonoItalian (Original Language), MonoFrench (Original Language), MonoGerman (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Polish (Subtitled), Czech (Subtitled), Hungarian (Subtitled), Turkish (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), Bulgarian (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Greek (Subtitled), Hebrew (Subtitled),
Region Code: 2
Theatrical Release Date: December 19, 1979
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Editorial Review:
Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Actor, and Screenplay, Kramer vs. Kramer remains as powerfully moving today as it was when released in 1979, simply because its drama will remain relevant for couples of any generation. Adapted by director Robert Benton from the novel by Avery Corman, this is perhaps the finest, most evenly balanced film ever made about the failure of marriage and the tumultuous shift of parental roles. It begins when Joanna Kramer (Meryl Streep) bluntly informs her husband Ted (Dustin Hoffman) that she's leaving him, just as his advertising career is advancing and demanding most of his waking hours. Self-involvement is just one of the film's underlying themes, along with the search for identity that prompts Joanna to leave Ted with their first-grade son (Justin Henry), who now finds himself living with a workaholic parent he barely knows. Juggling his domestic challenge with professional deadlines, Ted is further pressured when his wife files for custody of their son. This legal battle forms the dramatic spine of the film, but its power is derived from Benton's flawlessly observant script and the superlative performances of his entire cast. Because Benton refuses to assign blame and deals fairly with both sides of a devastating dilemma, the film arrives at equal levels of pain, growth, and integrity under emotionally stressful circumstances. That gives virtually every scene the unmistakable ring of truth--a quality of dramatic honestly that makes Kramer vs. Kramer not merely a classic tearjerker, but one of the finest American dramas of its decade. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - A poignant tale of growth and parenthood that still brings tears today...
There are many films about the deterioration of the marriage arrangement, but very few of them can reach the levels of emotional attachment that `Kramer vs. Kramer' manages to grasp hold of. To say that `Kramer vs. Kramer' doesn't still resonate today is a miscalculation if you ask me, for even if the eventual result is softer and or more delicate than is often the case in reality, there is so much truth in every frame that one can't help but draw comparisons to similar situations today.
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Rating:  - Not aging well.
Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton, 1979)
Okay, I'll admit it, almost thirty years later I wanted to see Kramer vs. Kramer again solely for the JoBeth Williams scene. Yes, I am shallow. It's all I really remembered from the movie, other than Meryl Streep's "I make thirty-one thousand dollars" speech. And it's just as much fun this time around as it was when I originally saw the movie over twenty-five years ago. (I'm obviously not the only one who thinks so; the first keyword for the movie ... Read More
Rating: - Another key cultural artifact
"Kramer vs. Kramer" is a perfect artifact that speaks to the discourses of the men's movement and the women's movement.
Rating: - "Sometimes Mommy and Daddy Don't Get Along..."
In several ways, this movie is really great work. It starts with Dustin Hoffman (An Art Director) trying to get his company a major contract. He comes home late only to realize that his wife (Streep) is leaving him and thus leaving him in charge of their preteen son. We don't know exactly why she left, but we are lead to believe that Hoffman was so involved in his job, that he didn't understand Streep's pain. (And we are permitted some sympathy for her.) At the time this movie was made, divorce was becoming ... Read More
Rating: - Some People are Clueless
For everyone complaining how it was a bad movie obviously had no idea what they were watching or the point of the whole movie. The point was not for a family drama the whole point was to show a fatal flaw in the justice system. Back in the day there was a law in place saying that if a child was under a certain age and both parents were able to take care of the kid that it would by default go to the mother because women were better nurturers.
The whole point of the film was to show that fathers can ... Read More
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