Kramer Vs. Kramer (Blu-ray) PG

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  • Rated: PG
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region ABC (Worldwide)
  • Released: February 17, 2009
  • Originally Released: 1979
  • Label: Sony Pictures

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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

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User Ratings: 43,330
Rating: 5/5 -- Sensitive, truthful look at the breakup of a family. Full Review
Common Sense Media
Feb 11, 2014
...Fine, witty, moving, most intelligent....Hoffman is splendid...
New York Times
Dec 19, 1979
Rating: 4/5 -- What could so easily have become something false and tacky is handled with truth and restraint. Full Review
Radio Times
Jan 17, 2014
Included in the New York Times's 10 BEST FILMS OF 1979
New York Times
Dec 30, 1979
What Benton achieved with his screenplay he intensified with his direction. Each performance is a minor miracle of perfection - not only Hoffman's and Streep's, which dominate the picture, but each of the supporting roles as well. Full Review
Hollywood Reporter
Dec 19, 2016
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. Full Review
Christian Science Monitor
Feb 6, 2013
Benton's direction must first be praised for his choice of actors and his collaboration with them. Full Review
The New Republic
Feb 6, 2013

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.

Description by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

Winner of 5 Academy Awards(r), KRAMER VS. KRAMER is a ground-breaking drama about the heartbreak of divorce and the struggle between work and family. Young husband and father, Ted Kramer, (Dustin Hoffman) loves his family - and his job, which is where he spends most of his time. When he returns home late one evening from work, his wife, Joanna, (Meryl Streep) confronts him and then leaves him, forcing Ted to become the sole caregiver to their six-year-old son. Now, Ted must learn to be a father while balancing the demands of his high-pressure career. But just as Ted adapts to his new role and begins to feel like a fulfilled parent, Joanna returns. And now she wants her son back.

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